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To: triumphant values; logician2u
Actually the "trump" here is how utterly resistant the fringe Dincon wing of the GOP are to changing their 1930s Isolationist dogmas to fit modern economic-political reality.

No matter what happens anywhere in the world, the Dinocon dogma is the same "Hide out in Fortress America and do nothing".

It amazing how in a post 09-11 world the Dincons still cannot wake up to the plain fact that there is no place for them to hide anymore.

These foes will come to you if you do not go get them 1st. These foes have no desire to "live and let live".

69 posted on 09/13/2011 9:41:57 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: MNJohnnie; logician2u
Actually the "trump" here is how utterly resistant the fringe Dincon wing of the GOP are to changing their 1930s Isolationist dogmas to fit modern economic-political reality.

Modern economic-political reality? You mean because the world is so much more dangerous now than when isolationism was considered a mainstream policy?

Even though it isn't true. The world was incalculably more dangerous 250 years ago when isolationism was preached far and wide.

Presidents were preaching isolationism when Indians were scalping men, women and children on the frontiers. They were preaching isolationism when the Ottoman Empire was a great world power. They were preaching isolationism when a cholera epidemic could wipe out an entire town's population in weeks and 1 in 10 women died in childbirth.

They were preaching isolationism because even with all those dangers, they knew a government ever expanding its martial circle was the bigger danger.

76 posted on 09/13/2011 11:18:39 AM PDT by triumphant values
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