No, do not believe in the statement o you break it you buy it when it comes to war, invasion, and military operations. I think the products of war do not fall as a responsibility of the enacting party as John Lyly said " all is fair in love and war. America needs to do what is best for America as it is not a charity and running a militant superpower like this would be too expensive and cost taxpayers millions and would cost taxpayers money that they could use to fix the problems still within the country. I think if people care about the cause enough the money should not come out of America's pocket but instead the pocket of individuals who would like to donate. In the end, America needs to solve its own problems before the problems of others such as our increasing homelessness problem. although some feel the need to help others you need to remove the rafter in her own eye before we help the rest of the world.
While it can be possible to find news articles online even from 1906 it most likely will be hard or highly unlikely that they even exist there. Government archives don't contain news or magazine articles and so on. And library books are not newspapers and other journals. Databases of periodicals contain citations of articles from magazines and newspapers and Lana should use these to find what they need.
The era which most deeply influenced the writing of the Declaration of Independence was the Modern Era and the illuminism movement. The Declaration of Independence was written in 1776, when illumimism movement was at its peak, and its influenced was heavy on the declaration as it emphatiziced the natural rights of the people, for example.