The United States should adopt a stricter isolationist stance

Isreal: the land has been JEWISH for a long time, not isreali. And that's not even true either it has switched hands between arabs and jews for the majority of known history. And looking back it has been Arab for the majority of that. The problem with your argument is that your confusing Christians, Jews, and Isreal. let me define what i mean: In the Bible God gave the land to the JEWS, however back then the Jews were his chosen people. That has changed....the Jews today are not the same as the Jews back then. Technically God gave the land to his chosen people.....which would be the Christian's nowadays. ISREAL, is neither God's chosen people nor a religion, it is a country run by criminals, crooks and politicians. it is not fighting for jews, or God, it is fighitng for itself. The British were nice enough to give these people a whole country on land the British didn't even own (you gotta love those british), and these people decided to make sure they kept it. Naturally the people displaced would want it back. Now back to God giving it to his people. He gave it to the jews in the Bible, i believe that was the end of God's involvement in that sense, The Jews had it, if they lost it it was their fault, not God's. And even IF Isreal had 100% perfect claims on jeruselum that is still no excuse for the US government to enforce it. it should be private organizations fighting for it, the US government should not take a side. And yes i could, and will say taht America is borderline terrorist in a lot of the things we do, it's sad the state our country has gotten too. That's why i always find it ironic that our leaders brand other people as terrorists and then inprison them with no trial and torture them. America survived for 150 years without the arabs careing how we live, trust me, i've been over there, they don't care. Are there extremists? yes of course there's always extremists, but can you blame the US for everything the KKK does? the majority are ticked because we have been taking out leaders, bombing them, and telling them how to run their lives for the past 50 years....in fact that's one of the reasons Osama Bin Ladin said he bombed us for.....because we had troops in Saudi arabia. Free trade Well isolationism is basically cutting ourselves off from the outside world. if you still want to import and export, than it's not isolationism. No i'm not refering to NAFTA, NAFTA is as bad as the UN. I'm talking about real free trade. Basically meaning our citizens are free to trade with whoever and where ever they want, free of tax....heck tax the forign people, but no taxes on Americans trading overseas. I don't think the government should pay the companies to come back....it's not their responsibility. However since the reason the companies moved in the first place was due to the governments increasingly strict restraints on everything from energy consumption, to unions, to labor laws...The government should abolish the programs that coused them to move rather than add more programs to counter the programs already in place. As to the citizens thing, this isn't a make or break issue. Mostly because should a forign country kidnap our citizens there is probably already enough reasons to go to war anyway. The one problem i'm having with your point of view is that should that be the policy Americans would be more likely to go to extremly dangerous places and just expect the governmetn to bail them out....basically just carelessly taking advantage of the system. Also the military build up did not end the cold war, the US already had plenty of weopans, as did Russia, Russia was perfectly capable of building up themselves. What stopped it was Reagan's dimplomacy, and a russian leader who listened.