In some respects you are historically correct but you also sound like you follow the Lindbergh kool aid trail. Stay out of the other countries disputes.
The world is round, not flat so you cannot get to the other end without coming to the beginning or the starting point. Since this is the only place now to live and there are no other habitable planets, yet, doesn't it make sense to stop the situation before it gets totally out of hand?
I do agree...and I understand the answer as to when to intervene in foreign disputes is not always clear or easy. I would not suggest that the choice to enter WWII was a bad one...only that, even in that case, the decision to enter the war...and more importantly, when to enter the war...is not an easy or obvious answer. Part of the reason America emerged from the war as the great power it did was the result of the fact that we stayed out of the war (at least actively) for years while the European and Asian powers ravaged each other
What has been going on in the Middle East is an entirely different story...the problem is not a lack of American involvement...its a far-too-extensive, decades long involvement and the undeniable reality is that the US has greatly favored the Israelis in the battle between Zionism and Islamism in the Middle East. Far too many Americans today have been conditioned to believe that terrorism began with the Arabs in the Middle East because they are simply evil and bent on destroying the West and turning us all into Muslims...such a simplisitic, childish misunderstanding of what's gone on the Middle East in the 20th century.
Another poster above refers me to the former Iranian president Rafsanjani and suggests that he has advocated nuking Israel and the US and is willing to sacrifice millions of Iranians to do this...I mean, how many Americans really believe this garbage? I wonder how many have read or heard any of Rafsanjani's speeches.
Here is Rafsanjani's Qods Day Speech from 2001...does this sound like someone who wants to launch a nuclear attack against the US and accept the annihilation of Iran just because he "hates us for who we are"...or because he "hates our freedoms"? or does it sound like someone articulating a political grievance with US foreign policy and the favoritism the US government has shown Israel since its founding in the form of billions of dollars in annual aid, weapons sales and US backed threats to ensure that none of Israel enemies will be allowed to possess the weapons Israel posssesses