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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen
I have no faith in Obama. I just have no faith in your guy Romney either.
How's this for a plan: Since we seem so bent on spending ourselves into oblivion via the military, why don't we pull our troops out of this region and bring them home to be put to work, I don't know, maybe defending America? We've got nearly 2000 miles of virtually open border right here that the cartels that practically run Mexico treat as their own personal highway and playground in ferrying people, drugs and weapons into our country. Moreover, it is a gaping hole in which terror groups can enter the US with impunity. Maybe, just maybe, it would be better to patrol that area instead of trying to bring America's enemies into power by fighting some enemy in some desert on the other side of the world. If we put the kind of effort in policing our border with Mexico as we spend 'bringing democracy' and building nations in the Middle East we could solve our illegal immigration problems without having to worry about Dream Acts and other legislation.
Whaddya think?
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Isolationism is no option here to reorganise America. The links to the outside world are too intense, the dependencies too vital, the mutual financial and economic interactions too inextricable as that this could be tried without even accelerating the fall.
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If you want to
accelerate the desintegration of the American empire, go ahead with isolationism. No empire ever so far could afford to turn passive. Whenever any empire reached that phase of its lifecycle, it died a slow death.
Globalisation was forthought by American business. And now it turns against you (and us as well) and bites us in our lower bottoms. Karma that is: cause and (longterm) effect.
Compare it to agriculture going from diverse farming to giant monocultures. Financial short term profit - versus long term disadvantages on social and environmental and biological levels. The same is done by seed companies having destroyed natural diversity of seeds and genetically deleting them to be reusable in secodn generation seeds, so that farmers must buy new seeds from the comnpany instead. This also will cost us dearly in the future.
Bigger, wider, higher, better, which seems to be a modern motto. But there are no God-cheats in real life. Everything comes at a cost. Every cause has a reaction. No shortcuts. No miracle alchemy turning dirt into pure gold.