Exactly. You don't go charging after mosquitos with a big-league baseball bat. You kill a few maybe but you end up ruining everything else including the bat. Better to wait until one is trying to bite you and slap the chit out of him.
You have heard of the Powell Doctrine. Here is the HWR doctrine: "Unless we are making someplace the 51st state, we ain't goin in at all." Very simple.
How about adding this one to it. If you have to restrict the bombing of some targets don't bomb any at all. If youre not willing to go ww2 style then should we be doing it? Think of the target list made in the whitehouse during the Vietnam war.
I got an idea, how bout we just let those phuckers deal with their own sh!t. And we deal with our own..... We are broke, yet we continue to shell out aid to other countries that want us dead. F that....... They can break out the beach chairs and live in their huge sand trap, and watch us and be jealous for all i care...
The problem is that when we tried to be isolationist we still got sucked into two world wars. If we are not involved in the world would we be sucked into another world war in the future? We tried to stay to ourselves and it still didn't work. Europe was in stalemate during ww1 until the doughboys showed up. Then Europe was being dominated by the Nazis until we showed up again. If we disconnect from the world will we be called upon to save the world again?