[Young Scholar]

I am wondering how you would go about dealing with the rising threat of a culture that wants to assimilate or annihilate everything in their path though. Isolation does not work in this situation, IMHO.

I'm certainly not advocating total isolationism, either--more of a traditional Republican "restrained" policy. But that is definitely a debate for another thread (and it's not a position I hold particularly strongly, so it factors less than many others into my voting decisions).

[Arioch7]

Fair enough.

I do agree with your general point.