On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 22:03:48 GMT, John Husvar
wrote:

(snips)

Maybe isolationism wasn't such a bad idea after all.

"Isolation" was what the detractors called neutrality, the
policy Washington and Jefferson urged us to follow. Of
course, neutrality doesn't allow for world-wide empire, so
the politicians had to ditch it, starting in 1898, if not
before. By the New Deal, the chattering class had consigned
neutrality to the dust bin of history. It's still there,
waiting for some politician with integrity and intelligence
to restore it to its proper place as our guiding principle.

--
Robert Sturgeon,
proud member of the vast right wing conspiracy
and the evil gun culture.