is that if one hasn't much to gain by a war, little to lose on the sidelines, and can let others fight in it instead of you if they insist, why wouldn't you stay out of it?
This is advice the US has seldom heeded. Vietnam and Korea jump out.
The problem, re the First and Second World Wars, was that there was more at stake than was known here, and dumb isolationism was strong.
In most recent wars, Vietnam, Cambodia, Korea, Afghanistan, Libya, Israel, Middle East in general, Africa, South and Central America, etc., there is less to gain, and more to lose.
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