Donald Rumsfeld: The Secretary of Defense

We took that approach after World War I brought all our troops home, stayed away from the world. Well, you can drop a plumb line from that decision of isolation ism to the Great Depression and ultimately the Second World War. We're just going to come home. Let's not ever be involved in these terrible foreign wars. It is far better to be forward, conduct these operations, particularly like this one where we are not losing U.S. lives but providing a sensible amount of funding for Vladimir Putin's Russia.