I will, but I'll keep reading.
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36 The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connexion as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop.
37 Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.
38 Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off, when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality, we may at any time resolve upon, to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel.
39 Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?
40 It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But, in my opinion, it is unnecessary and would be unwise to extend them.
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Clearly there are Americans who deny we’ve formed an engagement to be fulfilled with Israel, others would gladly “patronize infidelity. But many Americans, and not just Jews, recognize a commonality and “engagement” with Israel.
I’d also suggest to you that we’re over a century beyond a detached and distant situation invites and enables us to … defy material injury from external annoyance. And that Islamic terrorism is clearly a common threat to many nations, not essentially foreign to our concerns
It’s a different world with different threats. Washington would have recognized the reality of Pearl Harbor and 9/11. It's been a long time since America could defend herself without standing on foreign ground.
Our engagement with Israel does not include support for their war of colonization in the illegally occupied West Bank. Israel has clearly used US-supplied weapons for non-defensive purposes - a violation of US law.
Blind support for Israel's illegal colonies in the West Bank (euphemistically called "settlements") is precisely the kind of foreign entanglement GW warned us about.