[strategofr]

Interesting

[Dark Skies]

VDH is brilliant and patient enough to tease meaning from the most obscure situations.

But this article is a "potboiler" IMHO.

[x]

That might explain why, if the Germans and French do not appreciate us, the Indians and Chinese apparently do. How odd that we worry over the infantile rants of 140 million envious and ignore the begrudging admiration of 2 billion increasingly confident.

It's not a good idea to count on lasting gratitude between nations. France and Germany were grateful to us once, too.

The conflict between isolationism and internationalism or interventionism has to do with our relations with Europe, and to a lesser degree, Asia. For a very long, time, isolationism wasn't an option in our relations with Mexico or Central America or the Caribbean. We intervened in their affairs as a matter of course. Today it looks like we're taking the same approach with the Middle East. Whether it will work or not is something we'll find out soon enough.

[Wiz]

It is just that America is an advanced civilization that other countries are behind in mentality with hatred of America just because of their cheap pride of nationalism or brainwashed by communist and religious propaganda. Our ideology of "justice" spreading freedom, liberty, and democracy could not be compromised.

[Valin]

Ping.