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To: TimF who wrote (161238)	4/30/2005 1:01:44 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

< Pushing the world to "do what it is told" is not isolationism> I am sorry to disagree -- but it is isolationism because it knowingly isolates us from others politically. It is not an accident that we have gone from being admired and trusted to being disliked and distrusted. We are not just isolated by default -- we want to be isolated. To be isolated is to be free to ignore the interests of the rest of the world -- what a wonderful luxury, even if it is an ignorant and absurdly expensive luxury. We had influence in so many venues that we have now lost because we no longer seek nor want influence in the great issues the world faces -- we have withdrawn from them and redrawn the lines back to issues where we think we can throw our weight around -- direct military influence, i.e. bomb them and they will submit. This is political isolationism at its finest. There has never been a more precisely crafted nor fully implemented policy of isolationism in the history of this country. We stand alone on a world stage, ready to invade a country that defies our political will, and unwilling as well as increasingly incapable of engaging in the political processes that shape the political realities of the rest of the world. We are destroying ourselves and our future by doing it -- but it is by choice that we are isolated -- and it is a matter of policy, a policy of isolationism and unilateral warfare.