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Originally Posted by bhunter
Seventy years ago? You really would support the isolationism encompassed in the War Neutrality Act of the late 1930s. That would also be counter to all Presidents since FDR. Isolationism may have been appropriate before technology made the world a much smaller place; however, today with the economic interconnectedness, it is foolhardy to assume that events elsewhere have no repercussion here. Those very international ties are largely responsible for the increased standard of living both here and abroad that has occurred over the last century. One thing is clearly certain, Europe and Asia would be decidedly different if we maintained an isolationist policy over those seventy years.
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Isolationism is as impossible as it is impractical in these times. The incessantly meddlesome policies of the militaristic fanatics that have controlled our foreign policy and led us into our current level of disrepute with the nations we haven't bought off,intimidated or generally coerced into doing our bidding is at the far and extreme other end of the spectrum. All other nations besides American and Russia had had enough war and destruction at the end of WW2, and let it go. The profit incentive here proved too addictive for those here that fattened their coffers in the global conflict. Every nation in the world knows this besides our own, it seems. In my half century on this planet, we have moved from one undeclared, criminal war to another, and Iran is next. It's pathetic and inexcusable, as well as the primary reason we're in such a state of decline.