I don’t think we avoid any problems by being in all these other countries ruffling feathers. While I don’t think we should isolate ourselves I am very against policing the world and getting involved in every situation. Should we really have tens of thousands of troops stationed in peaceful countries?
We stage war exercises with South Korea, why? Between this and telling North Korea what they can and cant do why wouldnt they get upset with us or threaten?
Bin Laden said that he attacked our country because we were in the middle east blowing stuff up. This is the reason you don’t see them attacking Australia, Switzerland, Russia etc.