The isolationists never do this. They never consider what anyone would do if they knew we'd do nothing. They just assume that everybody would live in peace and could never threaten the US or its interests.
If they were big economic nationalists that wanted to make everything at home and could therefore ignore everything outside their borders until it physically showed up, it would be more defensible, but most of them are big free traders. A free trader who's a foreign policy isolationist is like an animal rights activist opening a burger stand. You're working against your own priorities.
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