So, if attacked, withdraw from the world and isolate yourself?
We were not attacked. We were criminally negligent in preventing the preventable. Plus, the "attackers" were not state agents. At the very best, they were religious freaks.
If 19 Hindus blow up a building in DC, do you go to war with India? If a dozen Americans murder a hundred Russians in Moscow, should Russia invade the US?
Only a moron would take "revenge" and spend 2 trillion bucks and 3000 dead in the process. That's the US way. When the Palestinians killed Israelis in Munich, Isreal did not invade Germany. Mossad did what Mossad does so well; they killed them all - one by one. But Isreal has brains. They re-inforced cockpit doors and built that magnificent wall to see the acts of terrorism drop like a rock. No trillions. No dead Israelis. Duh!
So, if attacked, withdraw from the world and isolate yourself?
How about that we were "attacked" BECAUSE we have our paws all over the world? That is a circular logic of madness that leads nowhere.
How about China and Russia? Are they in isolation? Do they have "armed forces" everywhere and feel unsafe because they don't?
Frankly, I am disappointed in you personally for repeating the swamp one-liners. I didn't expect that, to be honest.
To Muslim fanatics, the very presence of the US military in Muslim countries is an unforgivable crime against Allah. We know it, we ignore it, and we pay.
Add to it that uniquely American messiah complex, the DoD swamp with its greed, and all we need is a couple of good stories to go to another war.
BTW, those "babies thrown out of incubators" was a lie designed to make Americans cry - and cry they did.