America has been interventionist for only a century, since Woodrow Wilson revealed the blessings of messianic democracy for all, whether you want it or not. Have we learned anything from the catastrophe we unleashed in the middle east. I doubt it. The national religion of American exceptionalism blinds most of us.
The catastrophe was a victory up until the jug eared Marxist decided that we should evacuate from Iraq, but not Germany or Korea.
in 2012 the Last year of our occupation in Iraq Exactly ONE soldier died from combat. In 2010 it was 60 and 2011 it was 54. More active military personal died from car crashes stateside than combat in Iraq during the last three years of the war.
Now weather we like it or not, we most certainly will have to go back in at some point to retake the areas now occupied by ISIS. This time we will probably have to take on Iran as well since our withdrawal has upset the balance of power in the area and allowed Iran to all but openly occupy Eastern Iraq.
Once again Democrats have had the uncanny ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
We intervened by attacking France in the Dominican Republic in 1898 (Quasi War)
the Barberry Cost in 1801-05(Pirates/Tripolian War)
From 1805-12 we had a series of conflicts with Spanish Mexico in the Gulf of Mexico and Florida.
1812-1815 We declared War on England in the war of 1812. England burned DC (The last time anything productive to the common good of the nation ever occurred there)
From 1815 - 1829 we fought a series of campaigns against Spain and pirates trough out the Caribbean and the Second Barberry War in Tripoli and even landed in Greece in pursuit of Pirates.
From 1830 -39 we raided the Falkland Islands. Sumatra in Indonesia, Buenos Aries Argentina and even sent forces into Peru in defense of our interests in Lima & Cailla during an attempted revolution.
We sent ships to Canada on Navy Island in support of a failed attempt at a Canadian Independence movement. We went so far as to attack a British steamer.
1840’s We had incursions in Fiji, the McCean Island, the Gilbert Islands, Samoa, Mexico AGAIN on Monterrey Island, CA, China over trade disputes in Canton China. And the Biggie, the Mexican American War to round out the decade.
Following our own Civil War we did more adventuring with the over through of the Kingdom of Hawaii, the Spanish American War, the Phillipean-American War rounded out our non interventionist 19th Century and started our non interventionist 20th century .
Our Country has been intervening in our interests in foreign lands almost yearly, including a major hot war for either protectionist activities or conquest every couple decades since we left the British Empire.
We have never been non interventionist and have always been interested in World trade and World events because of it. This inevitably leads to conflict with other World and regional powers.,