What I don't understand with all of this is that the US keeps fighting somebody elses war.

I can't say I'm not grateful for the help they gave Europe during both the first and the second world war, and after that the cold war - and believe me, many europeans feel this way.

What confuses me though is that, it seems the like the US is a pretty messed up country the way it is right now, there's a huge gap between rich and poor, and it seems like emergency infrastructure doesn't even function as it's supposed to(Like with the hurricane in New Orleans).

The US army spends such a vast amount of money fighting wars abroad, whilst it seems like there's one to be fought at home. That's just the view of an outsider though, I don't know how you Americans look at this?

(I appologize for the sudden topic switch BTW, just got me thinking when reading the pro/cons of a US/French alliance )