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To: SARMAN who wrote (272006)	12/16/2009 2:24:07 PM
From: Hawkmoon	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

We need time to recoup and rebuild America. Once we are back on our feet, then, we will police the world. So.. if we permit the world to fall into chaos and open conflict because there's no longer a fear of US intervention or action, how's that going to assist our recovery? It's easy to say that we need to isolate ourselves and "screw the world". We've done that numerous times in the past. If fact, some would suggest that's an "instinctive" American trait since so many people fled those other nations in order to escape their constant warfare and oppression. But reality doesn't permit us to be isolationist. We depend upon importing and exporting our goods and services. We need markets for our goods and services. And that requires stable economies in emerging markets that need our high-tech products and services. We can't stand alone.. We're not that powerful anymore (nor should we be since that's how we got into this "Pax America" situation in the first place where we've become the world's policeman. We need allies Sarman. And we need those allies to be politically and economically strong. This isn't 1940 where conflicts could be isolated to specific geographical regions. This is 2009 and all it takes is for a small group or country to gain possession of WMDs and use them against developed nations like our own in order to advance their position by disabling our economy. A small nation/entity, possessing such weapons has the ability to inordinately dictate terms to the rest of the world, if only by way of extortion (NK, Iran,... etc). And if we permit other countries to start flinging around nukes and biological weapons, it's going to have GLOBAL CONSEQUENCES and we're going to wind up screwing ourselves because we did nothing to prevent it. I don't really believe your isolationist. In fact, I think you're being disingenuous. And while you rail against providing support to Israel, you don't say the same thing about the Egyptians, who are ALSO supported by way of Camp David agreements, despite their oppression of the Coptic Christian minority. Hawk