“So far as respecting others sovereignty, the fact that we got the Louisiana Purchase and created a navy would fly in the face against that idea.”
You’ll have to elaborate on that one...
Okay, you said we should respect others sovereignty. However, we purchased Louisiana from the French colonies, which would technically infringe and thus not respect another’s sovereignty. Same goes for our creating a navy when the Founding Fathers specifically did not want a standing military, just relying on militias. Not that I’m complaining about those things, but there are times where those kinds of arguments for isolationism don’t work especially if we go by what our founding fathers wanted.