Most certainly and the same can be said of Washington should he be here today.....
but to compare current times and events to the past really can't hold much weight. Especially when going back that far.
Grogoo the cave man would not have gone to war before heading back to the cave and consulting the cave paintings left by the invisible god. Then he would have used his club made from a wooly mammoth bone and...
I agree. World War II pretty much put an end to Washington style isolationism as something to be taken seriously. And, prior to World War II it was taken very seriously. I once came across a book in stack at the university library, title and author now long forgotten, written by a retired Army officer advocating we build a figuratively high wall between us and the outside world.
A more interesting debate, about which I've recently done a lot of reading, would be a debate between Madison and Hamilton: How to interpret the Constitution. That might have a bit more relevancy.