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Originally posted by Southern Patriot:
Ed,
Which is it? If the US decided tomorrow to turn into isolationist and have nothing else to do with the rest of the world (no longer be the worlds police man) you would say we don't do enough. I the US continues it's current course of fight islamofacists and trying to help other nations in the world to be a better place you say we do too much. Which is it? This great nation does more good throughtout the world than any other country has and I get so tired of hearing people tear it down.
You don't get the picture. It will not be the US that turns Isolationist. It will be the world that Isolates the US. About the only reason we are not already under sanctions is the raw power of our nuclear arsenal, and the Veto in the UN security Council. WE ARE ALREADY UNDER SELF IMPOSED SANCTIONS. Iranian Oil is ILLEGAL in the USA. Cuban Cigars and Doctors are Illegal In the USA. We are moving toward a boycott of Venezuelan Crude and Refined Petroleum, but stepping lightly because WE NEED THAT STUFF.
Since the Day after the 2004 election China has been negotiating trade agreements in every part of the world EXCEPT the USA. China now has timber oil and aluminum agreements with Canada. They have an oil agreement with Iran, they have made trade and defense agreements with Vietnam. They have negotiated trade agreements with Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Venezuela, Cuba and Panama. China is overhauling the locks on the Panama canal to allow supertankers to pass. They are in control of all the cargo movement through the Panama Canal. They are provoking the USA with bellicose diplomacy about Taiwan.
Russia has formed mutual defense and trade pacts with Turkey, Iran, Syria, probably Lebanon, and renegotiated Gas and Oil agreements with Europe and Ukrain. Just completed, a major oil pipline across Turkey that lessens the need for Black Sea Oil terminals to move Caspian and Siberian Oil products to Europe. And, they put Europe on notice that they could and would cut off energy supplies. AND THEY DID IT IN MID WINTER.
South American governments are turning more socialist, and more anti American every Day.
Bush generates riots in EVERY South American Capital he visits.
If you think we are "safe" you're living in a dreamworld of the PNAC/AEI's making.