I accept, as my primary outlook on politics, that everyone is pursuing their own happiness
I agree with you, and Ayn Rand...
Unfortunately, criminals are often happy as hell !
As far as "locked up behind borders", that's an off-base analogy. We have a mandate to lock illegals out, until they fulfill simple legal requirements, but would do nothing to prevent our personal and corp travel.
In fact reducing our military presence in other countries increases the welcome other countries would have for wealthy and prosperous Americans, who don't threaten them capriciously. Subic Bay, and other locations are more eager for Americans, not less.
Not to mention the countries made our enemies, with populations in the billions.
"Blowback", by Chalmers Johnson goes into chapter and verse on the failures of 50 years of foreign policy that protected Japan and other US satellites, to the detriment of US jobs. He also details the damage to relationships continually done by the US in its military and financial policies, which are becoming inseparable into a single military/financial state instrument.
Highly recommended. It was written just before 9/11, and I saw Johnson discussing his prescient chapters on the kind of world that has evolved since. |
