>>And history will take a dimmer view still. This is the dumbest foreign "adventure" we have ever blundered into.
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>A lot of people thought the same about us going into WWII.

I tend not to use phrases like this in my posts, but....
This is not the silliest off-the-cuff comment I've ever seen on the UT, but it ranks up there.

Until Pearl Harbor you are correct. Many (probably most) Americans had no desire to get into WW II.

After Pearl Harbor the vast (I don't have statistics to cite but my guess is well over 90%) majority approved of getting into the war against Japan. Had Germany not declared war on the US, it is probably true that Americans would not have supported going to war in Europe. However, once that happened, the vast majority of Americans supported that war as well.

Perhaps it was because 6 months into the war with Japan (Battle of Midway) there was never any danger of losing it and there was never any real danger of losing the war with Germany, but throughout the course of the war there was never any serious support for the notion that the US should get out of the war. There was never any serious support for the notion that it was wrong to get into it.

If this was such an unpopular war that a lot of people thought "This is the dumbest foreign adventure we have ever blundered into" how did FDR manage to win the 1944 election by an electoral vote margin of 432-99 (53%-46% popular vote) against a candidate far more credible than John Kerry?