It's my preference to go back to being isolationist, but this just seems like neglect.
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America was isolationist before Pearl Harbor. Now we have both the military industrial complex, and private war companies.
America invaded Mexico in 1846, Cuba in 1899, the Philippines in 1902 and joined in WWI on the allies in 1917 even though it had no stake in the outcome. Private US corporations overthrew the sovereign queen of Hawaii in 1891 and America later took over the place properly.
We barged our way into Japan in 1851 and opened them up for trade. We defended the British/colonial interests during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 or so. Then there was the Panama Canal zone, the purchase of Alaska, the endless westward expansion. Then the banana republics that US marines helped set up and support in South America in the 1900s, which is to much to go into.
In sum, America had a small isolationist streak after WWI, because most Americans after the fervor had died down, realized it was a boondoggle.
All true. But, our middle eat behavior these last facades would have never been tolerated by the Americans of that time.
I'm not so sure about that, but as a counter-factual thought experiment it's possible. The war in the Philippines, at least, was about an Iraq War 2 level event though. They wouldn't waste time with all this support for Israel at least, I'm fairly sure.