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Crimea votes for secession .
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<blockquote data-quote="TedKennedy" data-source="post: 2452704" data-attributes="member: 25419"><p>^^^Smedley had it right, and his record certainly shut up those who would question his "patriotism".</p><p></p><p>"Isolationism" is used every time someone suggest that the U.S. not get involved in someone else's business. It's misused, usually intentionally, much like "racism" is hurled at an opponent that's using logic, rather than emotion to make an argument.</p><p></p><p> It's difficult to make an argument for getting our young servicemen in harm's way unless we are directly attacked/threatened. Our soil, our people. No one else, no where else.</p><p> Unfortunately, many of our attackers in the past have been provoked over and over, usually in covert manner, before actually attacking us and justifying our reaction to the American public.</p><p> This typically involves our government funneling money/arms to whichever side our leaders pick. Sometimes it involves us sending manpower. But there's always a back history, long before CNN gets to show pictures on the 6 oclock news.</p><p> It's impossible to justify our foreign policy in the last 150 years, we come nowhere close to the principles that George Washington laid out in his farewell address.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TedKennedy, post: 2452704, member: 25419"] ^^^Smedley had it right, and his record certainly shut up those who would question his "patriotism". "Isolationism" is used every time someone suggest that the U.S. not get involved in someone else's business. It's misused, usually intentionally, much like "racism" is hurled at an opponent that's using logic, rather than emotion to make an argument. It's difficult to make an argument for getting our young servicemen in harm's way unless we are directly attacked/threatened. Our soil, our people. No one else, no where else. Unfortunately, many of our attackers in the past have been provoked over and over, usually in covert manner, before actually attacking us and justifying our reaction to the American public. This typically involves our government funneling money/arms to whichever side our leaders pick. Sometimes it involves us sending manpower. But there's always a back history, long before CNN gets to show pictures on the 6 oclock news. It's impossible to justify our foreign policy in the last 150 years, we come nowhere close to the principles that George Washington laid out in his farewell address. [/QUOTE]
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