Would it be better if the U.S were to cease and desist all foreign activities?

[Ro2113]

Originally Posted by David A Stone

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Weak Jimmy Carter allowed Iran to hold our embassy staff as hostages.


Iran released them on the day Ronald Reagan took office.

Reagan also ramped up offshoring and backed a drug czar in South America. But please keep allowing yourself to be played.

[Troyfan]

"It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliance with any portion of the foreign world", George Washington and wiser words were never spoken. The lower 48, Alaska and Hawaii are enough. Nothing but grief has come from our foreign entanglements. Grief for us and for them.

[phetaroi]

Originally Posted by Troyfan

"It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliance with any portion of the foreign world", George Washington and wiser words were never spoken. The lower 48, Alaska and Hawaii are enough. Nothing but grief has come from our foreign entanglements. Grief for us and for them.

Some of us don't still live in the 1790s. The world and life has changed in the past 200+ years.

[LINative]

Originally Posted by Ro2113

Your blind partisanship makes it hard to take anything you say seriously. North Korea tested its first nuke in 2006.

To the OP, I don't agree with the extreme measures you are suggesting. But I for the life of me don't get how military actions in **** poor countries like Yemen help the average american. Maybe they help a specific class of Americans fill their fat pockets.

There is that but I think the main reason is that the American diplomatic and military establishment are still stuck in World Policeman mode.

[jghorton]

Communications, international commerce, technology and many other things have rendered the world a global environment for all countries. The notion of completely withdrawing to isolation is similar to the notion of a single state successfully isolating itself from the rest of the United States.

On a local basis, it's not difficult to imagine the anarchy and destruction that would prevail - if a city, region or state confiscated all private weapons, closed down every police department, eliminated every oversight and analysis function and prevented its citizens from conducting business outside of its borders.

This parallel to the OP's proposition might seem extreme and unrealistic, but, people are people - and countries are countries. The difference is only in scale and degree of influence.