You can try to paint it what ever color you like, but in the end the isolationist ideals wreak havoc to any country that employs these policies.
now lets exchange the word "isolationist" to "nationalist"
Let's just all go so global that the USA is owned by every country in the world. Agenda 21 anyone?
Everyone, everywhere is always resistant to change. This does not mean that changes are all bad.
The world is getting to be much, much smaller, and businesses, communications and corporate structures are changing to accommodate the changes that are occurring.
In order to maintain our leadership roll, we must change as well, and we are.
some of these changes are painful, but the alternative is slow decay and the eventual deflation of our economy.
If that ever happens, the U.S. will be a bad place to be for a long time.
The future of our children in in our hands, and if we keep choose wrong, as we did today, the consequences will eventually damage every square inch of our domain. We will no longer have our dominant role and we will be stepped on like a cockroach by those who want revenge for past perceived and real wrongs that they hold us responsible for.
We can not achieve or maintain economic strength by disengagement or nationalism that affects economic and security decisions. We will kill our economy and subsequently our country.