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Rodney Reel
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Date Posted: 11:25:17 04/03/01 Tue
In reply to:
Rob Base
's message, "Re: Moving forward" on 11:08:51 04/03/01 Tue
"The US government is concerned with what takes place inside its own borders, but the US has never been an isolationist nation. Hopefully, it never will be. It's bad business."
Your wrong there, Rob. Look at the Monroe Doctrine. It basically told the rest of the world to bugger off and stay the hell out of our hemisphere. We were totally an isolationist nation for a long time. The only time we came concerned with foreign affiars is when it interfered with our Manifest Destiny (god I love that term. Sounds like the Prime Directive in Star Trek, don't it?) Good ol' Teddy Roosevelt tried to change that when he sent the Great White Fleet out to show the world how kick-ass our navy was (even though the fleet always broke down while on its Magical Mystery Tour). We tried forever to stay out of WWI because we didn't want to get involved (well, that and the fact that we were trying to make money off of all involved parties by selling weaponss...something we don't hear that much about these days in our revisionist history). It really wasn't until the Wilson's League of Nations (which we didn't join) in post WWI that we thought that we should take a policeman's role in the world. Sure, we were never as hands off as Switzerland is, but there was a time when we just wanted to shore up our borders and gnashed our teeth at anyone who came near us. In fact, that dude on the dollar bill, George Washington, said something in his farewell address about how we need to look after our own needs and stay the hell out of alliances with foreign nations lest we want to be forced into fighting the battles for those cheese eating surrender monkeys, the damn dirty French, or someone else. Isolationism wasn't really struck down until WWII.
Speaking of history, anyone notice that today's the anniversary of the Unabomber, everyone's favorite hooded, sunglasses-wearing bozo, got locked up?
I will agree with you on one point though: Blue Rubber Butt (I'm not even going to ask)
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