popeye1250
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Joined: 1/27/2006 From: New Hampshire Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: popeye1250 " We should not involve ourselves in foreign entanglements." - George Washington - Do you think old George had any salient advice on the buying and selling of slaves Pops ? Or more to the point...could you tell us just how long a journey it was back than when one sailed from the new world to the old world ? Now just in case any of that was to subtle for you old buddy...let us try this....the world has spun quite a few times since old George was chomping on his food with his wooden teeth.It has grown smaller( no pops,the world hasn't actually gotten small...calm down,I just mean this in a figurative way ) we are all so much more interconnected.Isolationism was a silly policy when you were a glint in old popeye seniors eye....it is idiocy at this late date Mike, yeah you're right, George Washington was full of shit. Given a choice of "isolationism" or "interventionism" I'd take "isolationism" anyday! Who wouldn't? In case you hadn't noticed our treasury doesn't exist anymore. We're $14 T in debt up from $4 T when that other "George" left office, you and mottertail's buddy. You two are sounding more and more like Republicans all the time.You two are taking the conservative side of issues now. Let's see here, we can fly from NYC to the Middle East in 12 hours or so,...so,.......that means we have to be "interventionist? (post hoc ergo proptor hoc) I didn't think anyone was trying to use that "argument" anymore full of holes as it is. Yeah, I'd MUCH rather spend $200 B on wars overseas and "foreign aid" that only gets stolen. Fuck all the homeless people right, dangerous bridges, bad roads, ancient sewer systems, that we pay our taxes to fix only the feds seem to always spend elsewhere. And there's that word "interconnected". Sure, we're "interconnected" but that doesn't mean we should be sending Troops all over the world to solve other countrie's problems. That's their jobs not ours. And you say that isolationism is "idiocy at this late date?" Then why not start a war with China? That'd be some real "interventionism" wouldn't it? In case you haven't read the papers in the last week, Oblunder is removing *all* troops from Iraq. And hopefully Afganistan will follow. Oh, plus the other 2 or 3 wars that he's gotten us into. You're "for"interventionism I'm against it. Now who is the "liberal" here? You sound like a Republican war hawk.
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