You have me confused with someone else. This was me 3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47986799

> If American foreign policy was rational, we wouldn’t have been involved in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and now Iran. Not to mention Somalia, Kosovo, and Libya, and countless minor skirmishes. We’ve been throwing kids into the meat grinder for 75 years, and lighting dollars on fire, for no good reason. There’s no reason for us to light money on fire having bases all over the world, when we have two huge oceans to protect us.

Fair enough, I retract my earlier comment. That's not an inconsistent position to hold. My apologies.