Most war-never-solved-anything idiots believe that we did not need to involve ourselves in the First World War. What they do not know is that Germany sent secret telegrams to Mexico promising the Mexican government that if they helped Germany in attacking the United States that Mexico would get Arizona, Texas, and New Mexico in exchange.

If these messages were not intercepted by the United States I have no doubt that if Germany threw in California as a sweetener as well, it would have been a very hard offer for Mexico to turn down. Imagine if we did not gear up for war; imagine if the isolationists of the Ron Paul type had won and we found ourselves defenseless and unprepared against Germany, the Ottoman Empire and Mexico. We could have found ourselves speaking Spanish in the western half of the country and German and even some Turkish in the other half.

Too farfetched? I suppose if I told someone in 1920s France that in less than two decades, the utterly defeated Germans would be dictating how life is to be lived in their beloved Paris, that they would have laughed at me as being completely insane.

However, when Germany did in fact enter Paris in June of 1940, we in America did nothing. Isolationists of the Ron Paul type insisted this was none of our business. In fact we did nothing years earlier when German troops goose-stepped into Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland.

We did nothing when Japanese troops raped and pillaged Manchuria, China, French Indochina, and Indonesia. Oh, sure we did put in place ineffective sanctions (sound familiar?). Isolationists of the Ron Paul type insisted Japan's activities were none of our business.

Had the Japanese not made the fatal mistake of attacking Pearl Harbor, they could have slowly gained control of the entire Pacific rim and had only to wait for Germany to take over the whole of Europe which Hitler could easily have done if America had not entered the conflict. Once the Axis powers were no longer fighting but were in complete control of the rest of the world, Mexico would have been persuaded to join them, again with an offer of a return of former Mexican territories and Americans would have found themselves fighting from four different fronts. Japan on the West, Mexico from the South, Germany from the East, and the newly acquired and former Commonwealth of Canada that Britain ceded when Germany took over the former UK.

Fortunately for the rest of the world, we did enter both wars and so we continue to speak English in America.