What Paulbots failed to realize is that is over 200 years we had the luxury of the ocean separating us from Europe.. Basically it months to transport troops from Europe to America However, we don’t have the luxury anymore.. Japan proved the ocean couldn’t protect us anymore...
“Basically it months to transport troops from Europe to America”
And now it takes 30 minutes to deliver a ballistic missile, a threat that didn’t exist 200 years ago.
And even though the founders warned against foreign entanglements, there was no language that forbid it completely. Sometimes intervention is necessary where there’s a national threat, although that doesn’t mean we need to get involved in a Ugandan tribal war for example.