Haunted by the Ghost of Woodrow Wilson

[wwolfe]

I'm not an interventionist. I'm not an isolationist. One frustrating aspect of political discussion in America is the tendency for the media and political figures to act as though those are the only two possibilities when it comes to foreign affairs

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I'd buy your 2 cents for a dollar!

[thespice]

I do feel bad about the French. They suffered great losses in WWI; it's understandable to me that they would not have wanted to involve themselves in another war so soon after... Maybe that's just me being terribly naive, but I cannot begin to imagine what that part of the world suffered during the first World War - the world had never experienced anything like it.

I certainly don't like the idea of Imperialism or expanding ones empire. I wouldn't have agreed with Teddy or Roosevelt or Wilson much, I imagine. But isolationism, amongst other negatives, also ill breeds contentment - the idea that if it's all good where you are, it doesn't much matter how it is elsewhere. And I think a sort of apathetic boredom sits in. There must be a way to be involved without necessarily being intervening. There are protocols and conventions and organizations in place that are supposed to help countries make good foreign policy, but the US seems to thumb its nose at them.

Man, my father would LOVE this discussion.

I'm very glad Bill posted this here, but boy do I feel stupid.

Imperialism by governments isn't so much a concern anymore.

[surleigh]

The after effects for sure.

Corporate and cultural imperialism though? A bigger problem and probably one of the bigger reasons we're not quite as beloved we were 60 years ago.