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The U.S. isolationism in the past was a failure. IE.. the run up to WWII and ignoring Germany. If you stick your head in the sand and pretend nothing is going on around you, you leave your rear exposed, and sooner or later you are getting screwed.
oh so it was just us? Not neville chamberlain signing of the Munich Agreement in 1938, conceding the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Germany.
I don't know about total isolation. I don't think that is completely possible.
Non-intervention is way better way to go. You get to keep your real friends then, instead of having to buy them.
I'm for isolation in multiple forms. We should not interfere in foreign affairs unless it is a direct threat to our nation. We should also limit trade and immigration from hostile and fanatical nations. We completely block off trade with the eastern block and the Soviet Union in an attempt to crush communism, yet we pour money in to places like Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Egypt. Something isn't right.
I'm for isolation in multiple forms. We should not interfere in foreign affairs unless it is a direct threat to our nation. We should also limit trade and immigration from hostile and fanatical nations. We completely block off trade with the eastern block and the Soviet Union in an attempt to crush communism, yet we pour money in to places like Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Egypt. Something isn't right.
The Soviet Union doesn't exist!
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Originally Posted by ctk0p7
What is your point? The topic is over American isolationism, so that is as far as I went.
His point was that American isolation was not the cause of Germany's rise.
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Due to the global economy, being totally isolated doesn't work. Your stupid, loaded question isn't worth answering, however. You know why.
Look at the last sentence of his original post: "If you don't please make the case on why America should waste blood and treasure policing the world."
He's mainly talking about military isolation. Not economic.
Military isolationism is hardly independent from economic these days.
Where did you hear this? Japan's economic industry is part of the global economy. Despite it's current problems, the Japanese economy is still admirably strong. And they don't even have a real military.
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