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No. And apologies, I got sorta annoyed at the original poster. I lost my cool for a moment - which is not polite, and which does not put a reasonable or logical case.
To unlawflcombatant, I apologize for my tone. With respect, I disagree with your point. My understanding of the US is that it has benefitted from being a strong trading nation. Perhaps I am wrong, but that is the situation as I understand it.
For what it's worth, we face similar issues AU, we are relatively self sufficient with fuel (oil-gas-uranium-coal), food, minerals and technology. Due to increased pressure from Asia, our car manufacturers periodically struggle however, our IT workers are more inept each day and are being supplemented by overseas labour (working here on Visas in many cases).
Despite this, I don't think that isolationism nor protectionism (in it's extreme form) is an answer.
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