Did you forget how highly praised our beloved ally in Egypt was? Of course, that was only up to a few months BEFORE it became clear that we wouldn't be able to rely on him holding people down in Egypt any longer. THEN we gleefully mocked him.
Propping that guy up beforehand with massive aid packages is part of our interventionist approach and it's humorously backfired in Egypt.
Our foreign policy is based on your premise - we should manipulate other nations to be under our control or at least not threatening to us. Once every nation is properly g3lded, then it's good because there's "peace." Never mind the abuses that our peaceful puppets inflict upon their populace - our demand for peace-of-mind and verdant fields for our international industrialists to enslave or plow trumps civil rights!
Well, you can't ignore those impacts. And tyrants suppressing the expression of ideas you find scary provide you no security nor safety whatsoever. It's not our choice to anoint rulers of other nations. Rarely does anything good come of it (if ever).
If staying out of conflicts within borders of countries where all sides represent nothing but more of the same is "isolationism," then that's exactly what we need.
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