"If I did, I didn't mean to. An isolationist foreign policy is as old as our founding fathers. In fact, it was a bedrock conservative principle all the way through Reagan. Don't get involved in foreign wars unless its absolutely necessary"
And you're misrepresentation of history is almost as old.
Look up the Barbary Pirates some day, sparky.
Barbary pirates - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_pirates
The pirates were messing with our ships. That's an act of war.
Sam, I accidentally sent this to you as Freepmail. Just delete it.