Seems others in the blogosphere have picked up ComingAnarchy’s appreciation of Dr. Seuss. The Volokh Conspiracy has an old anti-appeasement cartoon up. And with the lure of isolationism giving some Americans a false sense of security:
Hat Tip: Chief Wiggum
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Bill Petti
February 20, 2006
1:58 pm
Chirol
February 20, 2006
5:00 pm
Younghusband
February 20, 2006
9:40 pm
bq. "The isolationist temptation":http://www.economist.com/world/na/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5499501
*A growing number of Americans would like fewer entanglements with foreigners*
[...]What's the point, some Americans grumble, of engaging with such people? We gave the Iraqis freedom, runs the argument, and they repaid us with roadside bombs. Palestinians got the vote and used it to elect terrorists. And dealing with the rest of the world is scarcely more rewarding: old Europe sneers at us, the Chinese steal our jobs and Mexicans are quietly re-conquering the south-western United States. Wouldn't it be simpler to build a fence around our vast, rich, sane nation and let the rest of the world go hang? It is a sign of the appeal of such sentiments that George Bush devoted much of his state-of-the-union speech to them. [...]
NeonCat
February 21, 2006
8:06 am
If (When) Germany threatens to bomb London again, we promise (cross our hearts, hope to die) to come help stop them again. We'll even help the French if they don't act snooty about it.
Luv,
America
Personally, I guess as the years have passed I have grown more isolationist, though I shy away from the term, and I am really not too concerned with immigration, though most of my friends and family seem to be. If America really wants to be concerned with what goes on beyond its borders, wasn't the Monroe Doctrine enough? Could we just say the Western Hemisphere is ours and if Europe, Islam and the Chinese want to fight over the Eastern Hemisphere, that's fine by us? Probably not, for good or ill. But for protectionism, that's another hard call. As the Reagan years progressed, I'd say my family slipped economically from the lower middle class to working poor. People in the US work harder than anyone in the industrialized world and have less to show for it. One has to wonder why that is so. Anyway, from Bush the Elder to Clinton to Bush the Lesser, we have been assured that all the outsourcing and moving of manufacturing jobs overseas to China and other third-world nations was really for the best. Well, America is deep into the red, both as a government and as a people, we don't make much of anything that anyone wants except for weapons and our job recovery since the dot-com bubble burst has been weak at best. So, except for the very rich people who own most of the wealth of this country, how exactly has this supposed free trade and foreign intervention helped the American people, in the long run?