Does the international community realize they are pushing us to isolationism?

Question

I just asked another question and this one popped into my head. With all this ant-American sentiment does the international community realize that a great deal of Americans I dare say a majority (info not just from this forum but friend family and strangers in a recent visit to the states) are swinging back to isolationism...is that why they want?

I'm asking without prejudice but surely they realize that we are easily a self sustaining country. And when I say Isolationism I refer to the pre WW2 era were we traded only with the American continent, Great Britain and a few assorted other countries but gave no foreign aid and made no international military movements such as those dictated from NATO.

So worlds were the US does not belong to NATO and does not participate in the many humanitarian missions we conduct.

In essences the US acts just like China foreign policy wise.

The US actually Produces A LOT of OIL but it is traded to China and other assorted countries. You've never seen or heard of the Oil Rigs? There is even Alaska and the possibility of alt fuels. You know just as well as i do that if necessity demands the world can run on ALT Fuels such as BIO Diesel hell Brazil does it and they are bigger then us.

No stupid answers if you don’t agree make intelligent remarks based on facts or observations. Saying someone smokes crack makes you look ignorant.

Answer 1

isolationism is a long American traditon. It started with the religious minorities who came to America in the 16th century to escape persecution in Europe.

it has been passed on down to many of us today from our fathers and grand-fathers.

Foreigners are only trying to tell us to leave them alone -- which has some validity, don't you think?

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However, technology has changed and what used to be 3000 miles of open ocean as America's buffer against unwanted intrusion by foreigners has become 25 minutes flight time for an ICBM.

Those Americans who fail to acknowledge that technology has erased the buffer their grandfathers relied on to keep foreign problems foreign are headed for a BIG learning lesson. 9/11 was only a wake up call.

Whether any particular portion of humanity likes it or not, WMD coupled with delivery systems are an issue for every human everywhere.

So far, a few nations have demonstrated that they are/were responsible world citizens on the WMD front -- Britain first [they could have nuked Argentina in the Falklands War with very little damage to bystanders], followed by the other long term nuclear powers who've refrained from using their nukes or other WMD {that would be America, France, Israel, and maybe Russia and China}. ["Maybe" because Pakistan and North Korea didn't just re-invent the how-tos of nuclear bombs -- they were given knowledge by those who already had it.]

We might want to offer thanks to our personal diety that weaponizing anthrax {making an air-dispersed version that'll survive more than 20 minutes or so} is so dang difficult. Otherwise, there'd likely have been a lot of germ warfare already -- smuggling a few liters of a gas into any country is dog simple.

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America's foreign policy ace in the hole is that our economy generates opportunity for individuals so dang well. Despite what the greens say, most of the world's people are darn serious about getting ahead, providing more income for their family, and even better chances to produce even more than that for their children.

As other economic systems continue to fail, the pressure on the governments that sponsor them continues to build for significant change. Socialist dumbnesses by governments tend to lead to the end of those governments -- or you wouldn't see Cubans fleeing their homeland by the thousands every year.

But in order for our ace to win in the long run, we have to prevent it from being trumped by WMD.

And that means that isolationsim has to end. No country or government can be tolerated anywhere in the world that moves toward WMD and at the same time behaves so erratically that others legitimately fear for their very lives.

Example: India now has nuclear weapons. Except for Pakistan, this hasn't lead to any other country worrying about the situation because India does not threaten other nations, nor attempt to subvert them.

This is decidedly not the case with Iran, which almost daily makes threats against any non-Shi'a goverment (but especially against Israel and the US), making their possession of WMD a very fearful thing indeed for others.

With WMD and delivery systems, the now clear rule is that if any nation threatens anyone else so much that they are in fear, that other nation has the right to attack first and hardest with everything they've got. No warning.

If this means that Qom becomes radioactive slag next week, I'll shed no tears for the mullahs who so belligerently and consistently threaten death to foreigners.

Answer 2

You have a good argument here.
I believe that the reason we continue to create hate in the world is because we are supposedly invading a country for oil and terrorism when in actuallity Bush is making money off the war.

If we ever were pushed into isolationism we would be ok but not flourishing. We certainly would have enough oil; it's the cheap labor from China/India, nice cars from Japan/Germany/Italy and some other finer things in life that this country would miss out on.

Answer 3

I don't think it would be a terrible thing. Right now, in the global community, the US is the big brother that everyone loves to hate. We are gallivanting around the world spending countless billions of dollars in an attempt to help unappreciative countries when we have disastrous problems here at home. I say we take a break from fixing other country's problems, and spend a few years on ourselves. With a healthy society at home, we could be much more useful and helpful to the rest of the world.

Answer 4

In today's world, isolationism does not and can not exist. 9-11 has seen to that. No matter how much we isolate ourselves from the rest of the world, we will always be a target. WWI is further proof. Wilson wanted to stay out of the European conflict, but the European community would not allow that to take place.

Answer 5

Many foreign leaders want Obama. Why? They are tired of having face to face talks with Bush and are tired of pretending that he is a competent statesman. Bush is no statesman. Lol! He couldn't even get his friends in Saudi Arabia to give us an oil price break. SOME STATESMAN HE IS. Obama will restore respect. If Clinton were the nominee she would as well. Clinton would make an excellent Secretary of State.

Answer 6

I'm glad to know we're self sustaining and can easily fulfill al the oil demands in our country on just our national supplies.
I'm also gald to know China gets all of its natural resources from its own territory and doesn't influence the actions of other governments like lets say I don't know, North Korea or the Sudan, and that it doesn't trade with any other countries in the capitalist western world

Answer 7

It's just the natural backlash to globalization. We'll probably trend towards isolation, but never fully realize the reality.

Answer 8

Traditionally - the US has tended to follow isolationist policies.

I expect us to follow globalist economic policies in the future - but also start asking other nations 'what have you done for us lately' in regards to international relations.

Answer 9

Isolation isn't even a consideration...

The US is a globalizing country...we trade with anyone anything anytime anywhere.

Isolation would be detrimental to our economy... You think the dollar is low now ?...

Answer 10

Thats what JFK wanted before he was 'thought' controlled in college. Funny he died after quoting that his goal was to break the CIA "into a thousand pieces". The CIA was created for the Zionists and globalization and control is the goal............seems that they are controlling most countries in the world now.