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To: GST who wrote (161265)	4/30/2005 1:25:35 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

GST, why are you arguing? "Isolationism" does not mean the same thing as "unilateralism" or "imperialism", and it is never going to mean the same thing, not if you argue from now until the cows come home. The word comes with a meaning, you can't just redefine it to mean whatever you think it should mean.

To: GST who wrote (161265)	5/1/2005 10:04:59 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Nadine answered the point well. You are using words in a way that is different than the way they are commonly used and that doesn't match up with their dictionary definition. Even if our policies do isolate us from others politically, and even the administration knows this will happen but goes ahead anyway that doesn't make the policies isolationist. That just isn't what the word means. If you choose to go to war you are not acting in an isolationist matter period. If you engage in massive international trade without serious efforts to curtail or limit it than you are also not acting as an isolationist. Words have meanings. When you use them to mean something else you just confuse the issue. Tim