Should the United States Adopt Isolationism as a Policy?

[angus]

Ending our current militarism is not the same as adopting isolationism.

I wholeheartedly disagree, and I voted yes.

[angus]

I don't even get that you people mean with "Isolationism", the way most supporters seem to have used it in this thread; it translate directly into making USA into a hermit kingdom, but people say that it isn't what they mean.

what I mean is that we worry too much about Radical Islamists or African Civil Wars or Latin American neo-socialist dictatorships.  But Radical Islamism, African Civil Wars, and Latin American ideologues are merely responses to US and European imperialism.  We apply interventionism to fight the very problems created by foreign intervention in the first place.  It's a vicious cycle, and an expensive one. 

If we want to intervene, then we should provide food and education, but not "military advisors" every time some potential dictator we don't like tries to supplant some dictator that we do like.

[angus]

Seriously?!  Do you even try?   Have you ever even read Dr. Seuss?  It's one thing to pass along another's clever work.  But to pass on another's failed attempt.  Has the author of that horrible attempt at parody ever even read Doctor Seuss?

Look, I'm not a parodist, or even a writer of any sort, but I'll take a minute to give it a try:


Through plans acted more, and some acted less,
Through Operation Fortune, and Operation Success,
Through the long Desert Fox, then Shield, and then Storm
Operation Enduring Freedom, and operations forlorn,
Operation Peter Pan and Operation Little Switch,
These military ventures only prove war's a bitch
But the wolf has patience and vengeance and stealth,
He knows that what attracts us, really, is wealth

The wolf ate the children and spat out their bones,
But the wolf did not hear their cries and their moans,
Still, moans they did make, and make them galore,
Yet though they were eaten, they still were not sore,
'Cause deep in their hearts, they knew but one cause
'Twas the cause of the stable, they thought with some pause,
The sovereignty of nations--at least those that endure--
Is the sovereignty that ends at their borders, for sure.


How's that?  Probably it stinks, but then I only spent about five minutes on it, and at least no one's paying me for it and no punks are posting it on internet forum debate links. 


Really, if you have an opinion, state it.  If you have a cute cartoon, post it.  If you have a nice original parody, by all means post it.  But if you have garbage, please put it out by the curb before five o'clock on Monday morning.  Thank you.