*** Actually, the "liberals" were screaming to get into the conflict, Roosevelt chief among them. ***

To be honest I don't know if they were liberals or not. I'd edit my post and remove "liberals" if I could. However, I stand by my statement about Roosevelt;

"In the early New Deal years, Roosevelt not only pursued programs of economic nationalism but, like most Americans, was also intent upon keeping the United States out of any impending war. He thus supported a series of neutrality laws, beginning with the Neutrality Act of August 1935. Roosevelt moved toward a new policy in 1937, after Japan began a major thrust into northern China. In October, speaking in Chicago, he proposed that peace-loving nations make concerted efforts to quarantine aggressors. He seemed to mean nothing more drastic than the breaking off of diplomatic relations, but the proposal created such national alarm that during ensuing months he was slow to develop a collective-security position. He quickly accepted Japanese apologies when the U.S. gunboat "Panay" was sunk on the Yangtze River in December 1937. Relations between the United States and Japan gradually worsened, but the rapid domination of Europe by Adolf Hitler of Germany was more threatening. (see also Index: "Quarantine Speech")"

http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/tceh/franklindelanoroosevelt.html

*** The folks who didnt want to fight, or worse, wanted to fight on the side of Germany, were people like Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, Joseph Kennedy, and Prescott Bush, who all sympathised with and admired Hitler. ***

Just like Chirac, Schroder and Putin, no?