"There are many isolationist Americans . . ."

Non-interventionism is not isolationism. If anything, the United State's interventionist policies have left it more isolated than ever. Intervening on one side or another in someone else's civil war is pointless and destructive. The Balkans are a case in point: the Serbs were ethnically cleansing the Kosovars, the 'west' intervenes and the Kosovars ethnically cleanse the Serbs. This is progress? I would have imposed an arms blockade on the entire region and them let fight it out with knives if that's what they wanted to do. Not that anyone asked me.

The case of Isreal: with the most powerful military in the region (and nuclear arms) they are quite capable of taking care of themselves. By uncritically supporting Israel against the Arab nations, the US stirs up animosity against itself where none need exist. And many of those so-called 'friends' of Isreal like Rev. Hagee aren't really friends; their pre-millenial fantasies require most of the Jews to be boiled alive at Armageddon, or something like that.