a trade war with a combined trading bloc stretching from Greenland to Korea would be a disaster for America... introverted and isolated, America would stagnate and ultimately collapse like the Soviet Union. The speech you are advocating would mean in effect the destruction of the United States as a nation state, in an international economy no country can go alone, no country can shut out the outside world... American assets would immediately be confiscated across the world, America would effectedly be contained only within its own borders... as the US cannot produce enough oil to match its consumption this would be especially disasterous.
America is a powerful economy and the most powerful military force in the world, but the world can and would survive without the involvment of any nation, the strongest of the weakest... and you will not be able to eradicate terrorism when no neutral country will allow the passge of American armed forces... there would be poverty, famine, soicial and industrial stagnation, growing unrest, growing autocracy from the state to try and control the citizenship...
In short, I cannot see anyone who would be happy with such a speech other than the most vicious haters of America and the west, people like Bin Laden...
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