Should the US become more isolated?

[Irishdragon]

A question to all of you out there:

In the Past few months since September 11, the Feds have issued warning after warning about possible attacks on Americans here and overseas. Should the US now adopt a status of liberal isolationism in regards to our a) Imagration policy b) our sensetivity to how others view us and c) our role in the UN?

 

[Weird Harold]

Should the US now adopt a status of liberal isolationism in regards to our a) Imagration policy b) our sensetivity to how others view us and c) our role in the UN?

a: NO
b: NO
c: NO

We do need to enforce the immigration laws and procedures that are already in effect, but that isn't "isolationism," it's something that should have been done years ago. Laws and procedures that are ignored are worthless.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

The last time we considered isolationism it took us three years to get into WWII, allowing Hitler time to create a "Fortress Europe". What happens there affects us here . Isolationism isn't an option anymore (and a big reason why you should never vote Libetarian or for the Green Party).

 

[Irishdragon]

I think maybe what I was trying to say before with my liberal isolationism was that should we now look mainly to our own self interests as a nation? Should we stop acting as the worlds policeman and start acting like it's superpower?

 

[Lord]

nah no good can come from isolation

 

[HotXBunz]

The world is too small for us to isolate but maybe for the next three years we should fake it before we stir up anymore global hate and discontent. Everyone else out in the big bad world is "evil" ya know?

 

[Lost Cause]

Move the U.N. to Europe, they're a waste of space here. Choose our global partners more carefully. If they side in ANY way with our enemies...no fucking aid!
I'm sick of our, "Global Welfare" provider status.
Quit being the world police and make friends with the survivors. If that was allowed to happen, evolution would divide up the world into Sino/Russian Hemisphere/Greater German Empire (EU), and the American Hemisphere. Easier on the maps for dumbed downed students.

 

[OUTSIDER]

A question to all of you out there:

In the Past few months since September 11, the Feds have issued warning after warning about possible attacks on Americans here and overseas. Should the US now adopt a status of liberal isolationism in regards to our a) Imagration policy b) our sensetivity to how others view us and c) our role in the UN?

You can ignore the world for a while and get away with it but the world will find a way to bite you on the arse and drag you back into the fight some day, America is top dog and leader of the pack and that means you have to regulate the rest of the pack for their own good.

I know this sometimes sucks but it's just something that comes with the job, I hate the way the UK has to help out countries that we know full well will never get it together ever but we have no choice......whats the alternative....turn our back and watch a new Hitler or Stalin spring up in the third world ?

Also weapons of mass destruction are now almost within the reach of third world countries, do you imagine some third world dictator with little or no education will know what the consequence's really are of using such a weapon on a nearby coutry ? what if Lybia(sp) had an "H" bomb or Iran ?

 

[Irishdragon]

All good points. The world is not a eutopia and will never be one. We as human beings may like to think that people can change; and maybe the individual person can, but a nation of people never will. I am not saying we should totally sever all national relationships only the ones with the nations that don't agree with our policy. I hear on the news all the time how these middle eastern nations love us, but hate our mideast policy and therfore say the attacks against us our justified. These people to me represent a regression in the advancement of civilization and I don't think we should have to satisfy their interests by changing ours.