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To: TimF who wrote (161214)	4/28/2005 4:44:13 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I agree with you. Our presentation to the world is aggressively unilaterally imperialistic, and not isolationist at all. North Korea is isolationist. That said, Bush is no "internationalist", if by that you mean a man who negotiates and compromises with other countries to reach accords. His father was quite an internationalist.

To: TimF who wrote (161214)	4/28/2005 4:51:41 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

<it would have to be intended to cut us off from the rest of the world> We ARE cutting ourselves off from the rest of the world. When we invaded Iraq we cut ourselves off from the majority of nations of the world and the vast majority of the people of the world. We once led the international community -- now we are satisfied to spit in its face. International law? -- screw it. International criminal court? -- to hell with it. Global warming? -- couldn't care less. We have our own agenda -- the agenda of the ideologues who, like Bolton, thump their chests and proclaim "we are America, and America can do whatever the hell it likes because nobody can stop us" -- that is our foreign policy. Do we still buy and sell on international markets? Yes. Do we bomb and invade? Yes. But on the central question of the role our isolation from others plays in our foriegn policy -- it is the cornerstone. The US is an increasingly isolated country -- a remarkable step backwards considering how poorly this serves our interests. It is an outrageously stupid policy stance -- but it is the policy of the Bush Administration.