>If I recall correctly, more wars have been engaged by the Democrats than the Republicans. Is that true?
Historically true, but ideologically meaningless. WWII could not really be laid at FDRs door, except to say that perhaps there were more Republican isolationists. Korea and Vietnam were products of cold war thinking pretty much shared. (managements of those conflicts is another matter) And our most optional war, Iraq II, was definitely not the fault of the Democrats.
Not sure party affiliation has much to do with it. More the product of history and personalities interacting with internal politics.
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Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
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-- T. S. Eliot
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