Toddy,

Our isolationist views had nothing to do with the issue. Behind the scenes, we were hoping that the Nazis would turn east and attack Russia and destroy Communism. We insisted on neutrality for that and one other reason. We had Fascism surfacing in the U.S. It had nearly caused a civil war in our own country just four years earlier.

As a democracy/republic, we had an obligation to support another republic at least in principle for their fight. Had we done that, the French would have continued supplying arms & munitions to the Republic, and Great Britain would have taken an active role in keeping the waterways and transport lines open to the Spanish Republic. The U.S. swung its weight to stop that from happening. We were wrong in our stance. We sold out the very principles we stand for as a nation. Like it or not, that's the way it went down.

Wolf