- Jan 16, 2001
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I am a US citizen and I have a decent amount of knowledege politics for a typical American. With all the events that are going on in the world, America should take an isolationist approach to foreign countries. I'm sorry, but whatever happenend to the Monroe Doctrine? East stays out of West affairs and vice versa. Only to intervene for police powers. I would like a withdrawal to happen for the following reasons:
But I don't think it will happen because of the following:
I am sure there are other reasons to all this but would like to know what all of you feel about America and isolationism.
- Decreased amount of financial aid going to other countries and instead stay internally
- Decrease of terrorism since their arguments mostly involve "yankee go home"
- Ability to focus on American affairs rather than global ones (Stop pulling their rears out of the fire, etc)
But I don't think it will happen because of the following:
- American corporate interests - there are big businesses that want cheap labor outside the US but despite the image other countries perpetuate most Americans are not in this big corporate syndicate pushing for world domination
- Countries dependent upon the US - countries have grown acustomed to the amount of support they receive from us
- Incredible amount of imported goods - America is the biggest consumer country in the world and there is too much we want to come from solely internally
I am sure there are other reasons to all this but would like to know what all of you feel about America and isolationism.