[wideawake]

America was not isolationist for its first century.

Isolationism is a very bad idea.

Randomly bombing Syria without any plan or any consensus is also a very bad idea.

We should not respond to foolish interventionism with advocacy for foolish isolationism.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

Good post. Very few people who respond to an article title have actually read the article.

[RKBA Democrat]

“We should not respond to foolish interventionism with advocacy for foolish isolationism.”

I’m not an isolationist, but I’m quickly warming to the idea. The use of military force in my view assumes a certain base level of morals, ethics, and competence within our leadership. Those qualities seem to be in extremely short supply for the last 2 decades or so. So you know what? I’m OK with the idea of defaulting to isolationism to keep our people for people from getting killed for no good reason.

[ek_hornbeck]

America was not isolationist for its first century.

America wasn't "isolationist" during its first century, rather, it followed the Monroe doctrine of staying out of Europe's internal conflicts in return for European powers staying out of our backyard. The US didn't rashly send troops to intervene in the Napoleonic wars in the 19th century, and rightly so.

Wilson broke with this tradition by stupidly railroading us into participation in WWI. Today, his heirs (both liberal and "neoconservative") are more than happy to repeat the same stupidity, only this time in the Middle East rather than in Europe.