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America’s founders were not isolationists. They engaged in commerce and exchange. They simply decided to stay out of the internal quarrels of Europe for the reasons their quotes state. ‘Minding your own business’ does not make one an isolationist.

America can engage in all manner of interaction and exchange with foreign nations without invading and occupying them militarily. Isolationism does not mean refusing to provide for national defense. Those who oppose imperialism are not necessarily isolations or pacifists.

Foreign policies that create fewer enemies enhances national security and lessens the need to go abroad to kill fellow human beings and destroy their personal property.

“War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.

“I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we’ll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.
Major General Smedley Butler, USMC on Interventionism
– Excerpt from a speech delivered in 1933, by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC.

America’s better weapons includes a nuclear arsenal and the means to deliver it. These systems are capable of destroying any nation on Earth. If America was truly threatened with armed aggression, the threat could be neutralized rather quickly and all potential aggressors know this.

Foreign wars in the Middle East have two things in common; fighting Israel’s wars for it and controlling the Mideast and Central Eurasia oil fields and rights-of-way to market. Were it not for these two ulterior motives there would be zero justification for America to be sending its troops to invade and occupy the land occupied by fellow human beings of a different culture.

“I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.”
– Alan Greenspan, Republican with 18-year tenure as head of the US Federal Reserve, ‘Alan Greenspan claims Iraq war was really for oil,’ September 16, 2007, London Times —

“I do intend to appoint … a special energy co-ordinator [for] the central Asian and Caspian region … the politics of energy is warping diplomacy in certain parts of the world.”
– Condoleezza Rice, G. W. Bush US secretary of state, Rice attacks ‘reprehensible’ Putin warnings —

“America’s global primacy is directly dependent on … its preponderance on the Eurasian continent. … [The] Eurasian Balkans are [an] economic prize … of natural gas and oil reserves. … [America’s] primary interest … [is to] … ensure no single power … controls this geopolitical space … to prevent the emergence of a … coalition that could … challenge America’s primacy. … The three grand imperatives of IMPERIAL GEOSTRATEGY are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the VASSALS, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the BARBARIANS from coming together. ” (emphasis added)
– Zbigniew Brzezinski (Carter Administration National Security adviser in his book ” The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives”)

The real war being waged against America is being waged from within by persons who have co-oped the powers of finance and government. Any real enemy of America would want it illiterate, deindustrialized and in debt. The enemy would want America’s borders down. These goals of destruction are being achieved not by so-called terrorists in the Middle East, but by persons who have held and currently hold political and bureaucratic office and by persons and organizations who wield undue, unelected and unconstitutional influence over the law making and policy making of U.S. government.

America need not and should not be involved in the internal affairs of these sovereign nations of people who are fully capable of directing their own affairs without interference from a nation that can’t even secure it’s own border with Mexico and can’t keep a private corporation (FED) from devaluing the American dollar to the point of national financial default.