Well Teddy Roosevelt didn't start the Spanish American War for starters. He did fight in it though and charge up San Juan Hill with the Rough Riders.
Hey we cannot explain away the things we have done anymore than other countries can explain what their countries have done in the past. The current wars have nothing to do about money as they have been nothing but a big HUGE Mother F*ing drain on our treasury. Call it revenge, call it payback, call it that the Muslims finally gave us a good excuse to turn the Middle East on it's head. But the country did not get rich off these wars at all. We're pretty much broke to be honest.
Isolationism looks pretty good to me actually.
Well..........you should read up on that one Eagle..........TR was Assistant Secretary of the Navy when the USS Maine blew up in Havana harbour......he practically drove Secretary Long and President McKinley insane with his demands for war...........he was the mover........and when war was declared, he resigned his post and set out to find a way to fight in the Army.
Gotta love Teddy