Norm, if you know your history, you know our founders became involved on the North of Africa.
The world is a very small place today, and we have to be alert.
We simply cannot be a recessive home body as a nation.
I know my history very well. If you want to justify your desire for Imperial behavior, be my guest. Because your statement stands in direct contradiction with the founders. If you wish to fantasize you know better than they, thats your call.
No where did the founders ever express an intent to keep anywhere but America out of the hands of China, Russia or anyone else. Thats history. Thats fact. Thats what “Avoid foreign entanglements” means. And it’s not arguable by you or anyone else.