Taking foreign policy advice from a man dead for 200 years seems unwise to me. We don’t live in the same world as did Jefferson, and I’m quite sure that the political realities we face today in a global economy (like it or not) would have Jefferson thinking a bit differently.
JMO.
Nothing against our founders, but we live in a much different world today then when this nation was founded. We no longer have the luxury of oceans protecting us.