i think that if they want to exploit every country in the world to get cheap goods then they should have the balls to help countries that need it
they use underhand tactics to get what they want economically
they told britain that it had to import bananas from US owned companies otherwise it would stop imports of British cashmier wool...
they use the tactic of "if you deal with them...then we wont deal with you"
they use that economic extortion to keep potential "enemy" countries in economic trouble...just ask russia
Originally posted by finti
if UN actually just tried to function just for some seonds ther might be far less problems
The US will never have an attempt at neutrality, for it is an empire, and within every president's doctrine that they have the power to use aggression at any states they feel to; imperialism, colonialism, whichever you prefer, it is only the Bush Administration's extremism that is creating the isolationism in which was the desired effect by the author of this thread. Simply, with every US intervention, with every act of aggression against 'rogue' states, and every tendency of "do as we say, not as we do"-Americanism, the US is fast becoming more isolated than ever, much deeper than neutrality can ever produce. Even President Bush has stated "you're either with us, or against us". That attitude has certainly shown that so many are not 'with us', but for sheer audacity, they are implemented as enemies, even though many have been victims of terrorism themselves. The more this Administration demands from the world, the more other nations will be askance towards the US, further isolating the military empire. It will prove disastrous.
should be careful, America policy after WW1 was a cause of ww2. Also many Americans think they don't need the world. FALSE and America would collapse if it did isolate itself from the world. Where would you get all the resources and goods for 300 million people. Point china,middle east, japan and Canada have trade surplus's because America imports more then it exports.
Note if the US econmey goes down the trade defcit will be the cause imo.!
Originally posted by Echuu
it'd be nice but we'd get screwed over by terrorism so fast it wouldn't be funnytechnology has made isolationism quite impossible in this day and age- the enemy can reach through many means
Not so, that's the goal of the terrorists. For us to mind our own buisness.
Hell, if we pulled outta Israel alone, we'd have a lot less trouble with terrorism.
Isolationism doesn't mean (atleast in contemporary usage)
a complete cutting off of ties and contacts with the world.,
simple not interfering, especially militarily, in other nations'
affairs.
The US can be isolationist, but still have all the trade, ties,
friendships, travel, and cultural/intellectual contacts with
the rest of the world.
I should point out, that where this country (the US) went
really wrong, was not so much after WWI, but rather after
WWII, with that paranoid, FDR-betrayer Harry Truman.
Almost every single problem that the US has faced in the
past 60 years comes from that bastard. From Korea (he
cut the country, then entered the war), to Vietnam (he
betrayed FDR's original plan to push for the dissolution
of the British and French empires, helping to restore them,
including the French in S-E Asiabacked), to making
unnecesarry enemies of the Soviet Union (Stalin was a bad
guy, but there was no need for the military/nuclear posturing,
and the global fight against every single damned communist
that comes along).
He set the pattern of interfering, attacking, over-throwing
any nation deemed not to America's liking, for the next
six decades.
Truman was an idiot who saw the world in simplistic
"anti-red) terms, and who was too much under the spell
of that other sinister bastard, Winston Churchill.
But that's just me.