Whenever the United States takes military or even diplomatic action to help foreign nations solve their problems, many Americans argue that we should remain neutral and not get involved in issues that don’t directly concern us. Thomas Jefferson, too, opposed unnecessary involvement in the problems of other nations:
“Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?”
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