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To: GST who wrote (161230)	4/29/2005 4:54:52 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

There is an internal contradiction within your post. Wanting everything to be a one way street with everyone falling in line behind us is not isolationism. Pushing the world to "do what it is told" is not isolationism. It could be called any number of negative things but its close to the opposite of isolationism. Then there is the fact that you aren't even really accurately describing the behavior of the US. The US hasn't withdrawn from that many international bodies if it has withdrawn from any. It has refused to join in certain international bodies but that isn't the same thing. And while the current administration doesn't think that it should be dictated to by the rest of the world (even if the rest of the world can achieve some form of consensus), you exaggerate the extent that its communication with the outside world is a one way street. Tim