It is long past time for America to pull back from Europe and the Middle East militarily. Simultaneously, we should be moving full steam ahead with drilling, fracking, building more pipelines and more refineries.
The Middle East is China’s/the Yurps’ problem - not ours.
I disagree.
You seem to be ignoring the lesson of 9/11 that problems which are allowed to grow unimpeded in far away places can come back to bite us big time.
It is far better to spend our gold now to actively patrol the world than to spend our blood later when the world comes calling.