[kaktuskid]

Except the wars often come to you. In Washington’s day, the enemy took weeks or months to arrive, not minutes.

[CondoleezzaProtege]

The Bible was written even earlier so do we scrap everything Jesus said?

And we were already engaged in proxy, target-specific conflicts with the Iranians anyway. Otherwise, they never did a Pearl Harbor.

[Resolute Conservative]

Make an example of anyone that does. We have the horsepower, they don’t (except for all their foreign agents living here that we need to eradicate).

[Angelino97]

Except the wars often come to you.

Which is far more likely to happen if we take sides in foreign disputes.

"They're over hear, because we're over there." -- Pat Buchanan

[MeanWestTexan]

“pt the wars often come to you. In Washington’s day, the enemy took weeks or months to arrive, not minutes.”

Washington was also talking about European powers, not Islamic savages. The calculus is 100% different.