Quote: Someone that "doesn't see it your way" is not an ally. Losing a couple hundred thousand soldiers to keep a swastika off the Eiffel Tower probably wasn't "seeing it our way", but we did it anyway because we considered the French our allies.
Your right, France was our ally, but we never "kept the Swastika off the Eiffel Tower". It flew there for 4 years. Largely because of the total incompetency of the French forces, but also because of lack of US interest in European affairs.
If France was truly our ally, by your definition, we would've came to their aid in 1938 when Germany first displayed true aggression, or at the latest in 1940 when Germany invaded France. Instead we waited almost 1.5 years to the day to declare war on Germany.
Not because we didn't like the French -- they were our ally. But because we didn't believe it to be in our best interests to involve ourselves in their affairs. Sounds kind of familiar doesn't it?
There are lots of reasons why we did not enter the war earlier, and lots of reasons why we did eventually. But because "France was an ally" was not one of them. We entered the war when we were good and ready to, and only after Germany declared war on us. It is hotly debated just how long the US would have waited to enter the European war. By the time the US entered the war France had not existed for almost 2 years. Yeah, way to defend your allies there, huh!
If being an ally meant that they had to "see things our way" the US, and every other nation, would be all alone in the world with not a single ally, because there's no 2 nations, that are going to agree in principle on every single topic.
