Hey, remember, to today's GOP an "isolationist" is someone who doesn't agree that it's America's right to invade, occupy, bomb the shit out of, and then spend hundreds of billions of our dollars rebuilding any country that is currently annoying us, at a cost of thousands of American military lives, limbs, minds and families, and a couple of trillion dollars we borrow from China.
What are you, a communist!
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I suppose we should just sit back and play catcher to al Qaeda?
An Isolationist believes that we don't need a military.
No, an isolationist believes we shouldn't get involved in fights that have nothing to do with us.
We have problems with that region for two reasons.
1) We are dependent on oil, dumping billions into the region, letting them cause all sorts of mischeif.
2) We prop up regimes that are evil, inept and aren't making life for their own people any better, but they keep the oil flowing.
3) We support the collective brain-fart known as Zionism, which just antagonizes those people for no good reason.
None of this is actually necessary. If we had invested the hundreds of billions we've blown on wars and overpriced hardware and propping up the Israeli economy over the years into alternative energy sources, public transportation and conservation, we wouldn't have a problem with that region. They'd be fighting each other over how many Imams can dance on the head of a pin.