[tlozo]

"The United States could have been a big neutral Continent far away from competing powers but our own politicians couldn’t wait for their own opportunity to play Empire Builder.

So true your statement.

From America's greatest President (1796).

US in 1796 had a great ocean separating us from the rest of the world and even then we needed to build a navy to fight the Barbary pirates.

Isolationism in the US before WW2 was a strong movement but clearly wrong.

[CapnJack]

And now we have miltary units scattered around the world in probably 75+ countries ... for what purpose?

The CIA constantly gets us in to conflicts meddeling around with governments in other countries.

And where has it got us?

We have so many troubles at home and we still give out hundreds of billions around the world ... money we don’t have.