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I've become an isolationist over time to be honest with you. The US is one of two countries on the planet that has the natural resources neccessary to seal ourselves off from the rest of the world and ignore it. Let them go to hell on their own and we would do fine.
We then could invest in our infrastructure and focus on our technological endeavors and we would quite simply leave the rest of the globe in our dust. Get a usable space program going and get mankind off of this rock.
Absent that fantasy. I feel that there are two sayings that describe my way to conduct international affairs. The first is "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent". The second is "peace through superior firepower". In other words, I will never initiate an attack on a foreign power. But, if they do, I will end them. The end result is they will be dead and I would own their country outright.
I've been all over the planet working in the geologic field and too many of our boys are being killed simply to pad the wallets of the corporate and political leaders of the world.
If one of our boys or girls gives the ultimate I want them to KNOW that it was for a good cause and not so some prick could make a few more bucks.
To a degree yes but there will always be those who take advantage of situations. The world is much more Machiavellian then that and in the cold light of fact we're all just pawns, coins to be used in a never ending power struggle between the perceived forces of good and evil with all side perceiving themselves as the good, fighting for (mostly political) ideological control of the world. Unfortunately to many don't understand that or want to believe it.
Very, very true. That's why I've turned isolationist.
That's the fastest way to get plowed under and or get left in the dust.