Catholic Just War Theory Applied

[arisbe]

"Is the political objective we seek to achieve important, clearly defined and understood? Have all other nonviolent policy means failed? Will military force achieve the objective? At what cost? Have the gains and risks been analyzed? How might the situation that we seek to alter, once it is altered by force, develop further and what might be the consequences?" -- General Colin Powell, 1992

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[arichi.livejournal.com]

There's also the worry that US involvement kept the Soviets in power. Richard Maybury suggested in his book (and I doubt he's alone on this) that both the Soviets and the Nazis were about to collapse in late 1941, and American involvement helped keep the Soviets in power.
[Besides, if one were pro-war and disliked both sides, wouldn't it have made more sense to pounce on whichever survived that war in their weakened state?]