It is unrealistic for anyone to believe that the United States should adopt a more isolationist policy at this time in history.  As Andre Siegfried said back in 1932: “The United States is presiding at a general reorganization of the ways of living throughout the entire world. …the one really new gospel we have introduced is the revelation, after centuries of passively endured privations, that a man may at last free himself of poverty, and most fantastic innovation of all, that he may actually enjoy his existence.  And so, without our wishing it, or even knowing it, we appear as the terrible instigators of social change and revolution.”

The social change and revolution we have in recent years supported have only resulted in a destabilization of many countries, particularly in the Middle East.  What we speak of as democratic change seems more and more like the establishment of an Islamic Caliphate all around Israel.

It would be devastating to Israel, ourselves, and our Western allies, if we did not emphatically affirm, under all circumstances, that we will always stand and support Israel.