If I understand what you’re saying, I fear you’re wrong. We can’t pretend that isolationism would work. It didn’t work before WWII, and it certainly won’t now. And, BTW, as to those online “polls” showing Dr. Paul in the lead, bear in mind they were probably loaded by the libs who’d like nothing better than for the Republicans to nominate him.
Isolationism didnt work in Jeffersons day and he responded to the Muslim barbary pirates by saying “We do not negotiate with terrorists” and then promptly formed the marines if my memory serves me
In fact, I doubt we will be able to leave in the forseeable future. We need to fight the terrorists on their home ground. Iraq's it.
Yeah, that ‘isolationism before WWII’ was really something.
We had Army bases in the Philippines, a blue water Navy in Hawaii, we were shipping arms and other supplies to Great Britain, and we engaged in fire fights with U boats off the Atlantic coast. We embargoed Japan. All during ‘Isolationism’.
Sometimes I think posters here repeat what they hear without studying much history. What would you have done in Depression America? Declare war on Germany for invading France? Poland? Britain? Attack Japan for the Rape of Manchuria?