Granted. I wish we could go back to isolationism, but as the worlds >only remaining Super Power, that seems unlikely. No matter what we >do, we simply can't win. When faced with a game I can't win, I either >decide to not play, or I cheat. For the US, the first isn't an option.Waitaminute...I think I understand your point, but NOT meddling in the affairs of the middle east is by no means "isolationism".
No, our policy didn't crash those planes into the WTC. Evil men did. >It's important to keep that thought clear. Otherwise, you open up the >possiblity of someone beating you to death because you refused to do >whatever they wanted. Please don't take that as a personal threat, >it's just an illustration.Well, I agree that no human is absolved of personal responsibility for their actions, no matter what the "cause". That said, I firmly believe that if US foreign policy all these years had been non-meddling, 9/11 would not have happened. I also do not know what my own response would be had I lived in the Middle East my whole life, and watched Israeli tanks kill my kids, and had I seen US troops "save us" from their Saddam, and then not leave...ever. If I were Muslim, I'd be wondering if the US had plans to put troops in Mecca. No doubt, my rage would grow. But I would like to believe that reasonable men would not have come to the conclusion that working people in the US (ie, in the WTC) should die in order for the US to be confronted on its continuing role in my part of the world.
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