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You are making the same error most "leave the world alone"-ppl make: You think that the USA is able to work without the world. In todays world the nations are far to connected for that to work. If you are ignoring most of the world (all that did not blindly follow you) they will also ignore you. And that you won't survive, ecnomically. If you stop aid for "third world hell-holes" those nations will also stop making deals with your industry. That is a common practice around the world "aid for contracts" thats how "those government leaders grow fat on corruption".
"I am ordering the immediate withdrawal of all US forces from Kuwait, SaudiArabia, and all other Middle Eastern nations"
...and those nations will withdrawl any oil contracts. Have fun with your SUV.
In addition with this attitude the chances are high that more nation will not like you and stop trading with you (ignore you) but the USA need some goods from other nations. What will you do then? invade them?
Those nation that are on you list Nr.1 will stay there not forever. Belive me Spain will have a different goverment soon, same as the UK (hopefully). The people are angry about the stuff Aznar and Blair did. In easter Europe people are also not too happy about the new US Bases, you have to pay big Bucks to your new "friends" to convince them.
This "speech" promotes isolation, something no western nation can survive today.
Like always this "speech" focuses on what you are giving, ignoring completly what you are recieving from the world. Like always it focuses on "all the good" the USA has done, on all "the help"; ignoring completly that there are serveral reasons for some no to like you. As always this "speech" tries to show the USA as the ultimate good in the world, as always it is a simple "black/white" view of the world. As usual this "speech" is rather stupid.
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"It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere. Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death
— Albert Einstein
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