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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Kevin Rose who wrote (135494)4/4/2001 5:52:40 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston  Read Replies (1) of 769667
 
I believe the country was ill prepared for WWII. Why? Isolationism; the tendency to think that the US is an island, and that the conflicts of
the rest of the world are none of our business. Sound familiar? Back then, the isolationists were mostly Socialists; now, they seem to be on
the other side of the spectrum.

Clearly being prepared today is acknowledging an engagement with the whole world. We are in effect the "policeman" of the world, like it or not. We are the last resort for conflicts that conflagrate or spiral out of control. You can call this isolationist but it wouldn't be true, no matter how many times you say it. We will not do a perfect job but no one else is even stepping up to the plate, so what to do? I don't consider the larger problem to be a desire to mind our own business (isolationism) but a tendency to underestimate the realities of a world with little democracy and even less freedom.

Edit: perhaps we should not refer to each other as liberal or conservative.....how about mugwumps?
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