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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (578916)	5/27/2004 3:34:58 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

In every generation of modern civilization there have been the extreme conservatives who preach about going back to a time and conditions of less dependency on outsiders. Over dependancy I agree is a problem but isolation is not the solution. Developing alternatives and working with the rest of the world to go forward is. In the eighteen hundreds we could be an interdependent community of small numbers throughout the frontier. Then turn of the century 1900's more dependency on regional support. Early 1900's national corporations won the day. later 1900's international companies. Now we are an interdependant world economy. It is not realistic to think we can cut one another off. The only scenario that supports that is cataclysmic disaster, which of course would not be an improvement. It is possible to isolate one self like survivalists on temporary terms (and that might be a good thing to have as an option). It may even be an effective economic strategy temporarily to have as a Nation. But in general we as a nation are members of an international community and that comes with dependencies and obligations.