in fairness, FDR got involved in ww2 by sending infrastructure to Britain and putting us on a clear path to wr with germany even though the us people and congress were opposed to it. That's similar to Iraq/Bush in some ways (doing what he thought was best w/o care or regard for being truthful to US populace). We'll have to see if it was the wise choice.
Isolationism doesn't work (we tried that over the objections of Wilson after ww1 right?); world consensus doesn't seem to work (see the continent of Africa in last 10-15 years under the guidance of UN forces); the only foreign strategy I can call a success is that of Reagan.
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