As I poke around through loads of dusty history books, the most important fact that emerges is that leftists are idiots.
Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany had certain socialist leanings, monarch that he was. In that socialists are by definition absolute dictators, they are not noticeably different from unstable monarchs. He blundered his way into WW1 by ignoring the fascist fools in neighboring Sarajevo who murdered Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Fourteen years later, an Austrian usurper named Adolph Schicklgrubr (better known as Hitler) formed the National Socialist Party of Germany. We know of at least 230 million persons who died in that horror, because someone made the mistake to listen to that vile racist.
Three years after the end of WWII, a Democrat named Harry Truman fouled up and got us into the Korean Conflict. At least 45,000 American dead, 27,000 French, UN, and Turkish dead, and an unknown number of Chinese, Korean, and Okinawan dead, do not paint a pretty picture for the Democrats.
Ten years after the ceasefiure in Korea, another Democrat named Kennedy bungled his way into the Vietnam War.
Clinton allowed terrorists to train to fly Boeing airliners contrary to the counsel of Boeing security professionals, under executive order, starting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. That is another blunder for which the Democrats must account.
Now Obama wants to get us involved in the civil war in Syria, because he is a leftist liberal?????
It figures.