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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (161221)	4/29/2005 8:18:28 AM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<Desiring to, planning to, and implimenting a plan to, cut off most contact with the rest of the world is isolationism> Yes -- and that is exactly the intent of the Bush Administration. You might think it odd -- and it is very odd indeed -- for America to want to systematically reduce contact and withdraw from political engagement with the world. But America wants to drive down a one way street -- we don't want to discuss, to listen to adjust to anybody. We want to tell the world what to do and to withdraw from international bodies that might require us to behave as if we were part of an international community of nations. The Bush policy is simple: We are the sole superpower and we don't have to be engaged with the world -- the world will do what it is told. We are not merely isolated by events -- we chose our isolation as our right -- as our destiny.