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You are a lousy writer, Mr Silver. Isolationism? If this is an attempt at satire, it would help to stay on topic and to actually understand the subject of which you are writing. Isolationism is very poor policy to practice, and one that our country has NEVER espoused.

#1: Helping Arabs retake certain territory is NOT isolationism, it is just another extension of the policy of INTERVENTIONISM; the very policy that has made most of the world despise us to begin with. So you are totally off base with that one. Then you go on about women’s rights and their treatment in the Arab world and their children. That’s all none of our business, period. A policy of true isolationism regarding this matter would be simple, remove all our troops from the region and recall all our diplomatic personnel and whatever happens after that would be up to the people of that region of the world. The preferred course here is non-interventionism, not isolationism. We SHOULD remove all of our military presence in foreign countries, but maintain full diplomatic relations and free and open trade.

#2: You’re a little closer to true isolationism here. What happened to Tibet is a tragedy. If they had one of the world’s largest oil reserves, do you think we would have intervened? Still, what happens in that part of the world, is the business of the people who live there. As non-interventionists, we would still maintain a strong navy with bases on our Pacific island possessions, but we would not interfere in matters that do not directly threaten our national security.

#3: DISBANDING NATO is not up to us, but WITHDRAWAL from NATO is what we should pursue. NATO, without us, would still be a very formidable force capable of standing up to any threat.

#4: Once again, you’re way off on this one. Isolationists would completely seal off the borders and not allow travel in either direction. The best course here is to maintain very secure borders and to control immigration.

#5: You actually almost get this one right, with the exception of the statement: “We should leave it to the international community…”. We are still part of the international community. Earth is our community, and we, as a nation, are but one member of this community, but again, Africa is another region that does not directly affect us.

#6: Wrong, again. If you advocate isolationism, there would be no dialog with any nation. We would not have ambassadors, either. As far as nuclear weapons, who is any nation to tell any other nation whether they can have them or not. Israel would do what it felt necessary to defend itself. As non-interventionists, we wouldn’t pick sides.

You should probably stick to acting. That way, you don’t have to take the blame for bad writing.