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Korean War was UN police action and we did not declare the war. We defended an ally as was our obligation because war was declared on them.
Eisenhower brought us into Vietnam, then Nixon brought us further and then dumped the mess on Kennedy. Kennedy/Johnson certainly bungled the mess, but they didn't start the our involvement either.
Wilson didn't start WWI. Wilson was a staunch isolationist. We declared war on Germany after they sunk our cruise liner killing American civilians and attempted to collude with Mexico. The war was already raging for several years before our involvement and it ended in total victory.
Japan and Germany declared war on us, FDR didn't declare war on them, yet it ended in total victory and ushered in our hegemony.
And Saddam Hussein continuously violated no-fly zones, prohibited and otherwise hindered inspections, etc.
And a lot of Dems were on board, until it became politically poisonous, at least.
Ike only sent advisers to Vietnam. Kennedy and LBJ were the ones that escalated it to a full fledged fighting war. Fair points on Wilson and FDR.
As for Korea, Truman committed our troops, that's on him, not the UN.
Justification (or lack thereof) wasn't part of the question, at any rate. You asked, I supplied examples.
The point is, saying one party over the other is the war monger party is incorrect. Both parties have done their share of getting us involved in bad wars.
WWII didn't usher in our hegemony, it ushered in a Cold War. Only after the USSR fell did we become the worlds only superpower. And look how quickly that is being squandered.
Is their anything that isn't completely the fault of the Right with you?
See, as a hard Right leaning person, I can say that the Iraq fiasco was a disaster. And the fighting in Afghanistan is just another example of blood for oil; the 105 Congress made it very clear what their intentions regarding getting a pipeline from the Caspian Basin were. Hint, it involves putting a friendly government in place in Afghanistan, it even mentions the Taliban by name as a problem standing in their way.