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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: GST who wrote (161219)4/28/2005 5:42:38 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
We ARE cutting ourselves off from the rest of the world.

We aren't but even if we were it wouldn't matter in this argument. For the third or fourth time, cutting yourself off is not "isolationism" it is "isolation". Desiring to, planning to, and implimenting a plan to, cut off most contact with the rest of the world is isolationism. If you don't want to cut yourself off but your plans back fire and you do cut yourself off your not isolationist.

"we are America, and America can do whatever the hell it likes because nobody can stop us" -- that is our foreign policy.

Not exactly, but even if it was it would not amount to isolationism. The word simply doesn't mean that.

Do we still buy and sell on international markets? Yes. Do we bomb and invade? Yes.

Then we are not isolationist by definition.

Tim
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