If you are referring to Washington’s Farewell Address, it has been terribly misinterpreted. It is primarily concerned about the danger of secession not as a permanent admonition against foreign involvement.
That warning was directed to those wanting to join the French against the British for two reasons. First we had a military that was pitifully weak, so weak even the Indians were able to slaughter one of our armies not all that long before. Two the greater danger was that joining one side in the war would stimulate the forces in the South who already were threatening secession. This is what all the authors of the Address feared, first Madison, then Hamilton then Washington produced the document.
“even the Indians were able to slaughter one of our armies not all that long before”
Even the Indians?
Even the Indians.
I guess because it doesn’t fit in with the left’s “red man good—white man bad” narrative, you don’t hear much any more about the vast superiority of the Indian warrior to the white warrior.
Back then, whites were frigging *terrified* of Indians, with good reason.
Even a hundred years later, before the Civil War, a half dozen Comanche could attack a column of US Army cavalry and lay waste to them.