There is a reason we are blessed with an ocean on either side of us. Build good fences and restrict flights and ship travel. Isolationist looks better every day. I am tired of being a policeman.
When Jefferson unleashed the Marines on the Barbary pirates for kidnapping US merchants on shipping vessels in the Mediterranean, would you have opposed that military action.
We had the option of paying one million dollars each year out of our annual 7 million dollar budget in ransom to the pirates in order to do commerce in the region.
Is that your type of ideal foreign policy?
I honestly do not believe there has ever been a viable era of isolationism for the United States— including the beginning. I am curious to know what era is ideal in your mind.