Thursday, December 3, 2009

49 Percent..........Isolationism?

Non-interventionism often gets spun as isolationism.

Nonintervention - n. A foreign policy of staying out of other countries' disputes.

Isolationism
- n. A policy of nonparticipation in international economic and political relations.

Although true isolationism will ultimately be what we are doing now....for one..we are pissing a lot of countries off....and two...we are ruining our currency and it may get too expensive to travel anywhere.


WASHINGTON -- Americans are turning away from the world, showing a tendency toward isolationism in foreign affairs that has risen to the highest level in four decades, a poll out Thursday found. Almost half, 49 percent, told the polling organization that the United States should "mind its own business" internationally and let other countries get along the best they can on their own, the Pew Research Center survey found. That's up from 30 percent who said that in December 2002...Link

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