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WHAT is so bad about U.S. isolationism?
Every scholar and academic and politician and talk show host and political pundit looks down their nose and poo poos America becoming isolationist but none of them ever explain WHY.
I am prefacing this by saying I am flat out *NOT* concerned about security issues and confident we can protect ourselves . I am not afraid of “the terrorists”-if they were a real threat why haven’t they been going out in blazes of glory in our shopping malls with assault rifles? A ridiculously easy attack which would be massively effective…. why haven’t they poisoned our water supplies? Why haven’t they exploited any of the zillions of loopholes which would be easy to exploit in low-resource operations with a huge pay off? I’m not concerned about security, at all. I am roughly as concerned about terrorists as I would have been concerned about then 9 or 10 years ago, my only real security concerns are nations like China….. which are going to crush us economically.
WHY would isolationism be a bad idea?
The U.S. should pull out of all trade treaties which are not beneficial to the U.S. and begin massive tariffs to try to bring industry back to the U.S.
How can we NOT be doomed when we have no manufacturing in this country? A “service” economy is thin as paper and only works if everyone decides to play right. Having our economy based on intellectual property is suicide-because it depends on others respecting them. An economy based on manufacturing does not depend on the respect of foreigners for our intellectual property rights.
So… I admit I am not the MOST knowledgeable about this sort of thing, so I’d love to hear your arguments-what would be so bad about the U.S. becoming isolationist?
Every scholar and academic and politician and talk show host and political pundit looks down their nose and poo poos America becoming isolationist but none of them ever explain WHY.
I am prefacing this by saying I am flat out *NOT* concerned about security issues and confident we can protect ourselves . I am not afraid of “the terrorists”-if they were a real threat why haven’t they been going out in blazes of glory in our shopping malls with assault rifles? A ridiculously easy attack which would be massively effective…. why haven’t they poisoned our water supplies? Why haven’t they exploited any of the zillions of loopholes which would be easy to exploit in low-resource operations with a huge pay off? I’m not concerned about security, at all. I am roughly as concerned about terrorists as I would have been concerned about then 9 or 10 years ago, my only real security concerns are nations like China….. which are going to crush us economically.
WHY would isolationism be a bad idea?
The U.S. should pull out of all trade treaties which are not beneficial to the U.S. and begin massive tariffs to try to bring industry back to the U.S.
How can we NOT be doomed when we have no manufacturing in this country? A “service” economy is thin as paper and only works if everyone decides to play right. Having our economy based on intellectual property is suicide-because it depends on others respecting them. An economy based on manufacturing does not depend on the respect of foreigners for our intellectual property rights.
So… I admit I am not the MOST knowledgeable about this sort of thing, so I’d love to hear your arguments-what would be so bad about the U.S. becoming isolationist?
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