Perhaps you would prefer George Washington’s term to describe the debilitating nonsense. “Foreign entanglement”
Isolationism by any other name.
It worked in the 18th Century.
It might have worked in the 19th.
We are eternally blessed that it died in the 20th.
Do you now resurrect it as a 21st Century political zombie?
...and — mid you — I’m not trying to turn on the snark; we’ve a very real interest to protect in the Middle East, and it isn’t oil.
Politically it is a Main Street axiom that “As California goes, so goes the country.” Israel stands as the hinge upon which the weight of global politics rides. It is in our inherent interest to act in that sphere with that axiom at the forefront of our policy.