Originally Posted by EagleTed

I believe most Americans understand there is good and evil in the world. And while, more often than not, we reelect presidents who take us to war, still at heart, Americans are isolationists.

We just want to be left alone. We only react, some would say overreact when war is brought to us.

I'm not defending isolationism, although I've got a touch of it myself, but it is a common American trait since our founding.

Having said that, God Bless you and all our troops who take the battle to our enemies, protecting our freedom to sleep.