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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
After contemplating this for a while, it seems to me that America isn't ready for the new millennium. Is this progressing into a new kind of isolationism? Is globalization to America what the barbarians were to Rome?
Nationalism is dead. America is looking a little old-fashioned these days. It's amazing what is up for debate there... many of which would be scandalous in places like Canada.
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I don't think that nationalism is dead, nor would I consider America to be nationalist. Although I do think that ethnic/racial politics are becoming more common than nationalism.
Anyway; I think non-interventionism is the right way to go (and isn't the same thing as isolationism or nationalism). Thomas Jefferson had the right idea when he said, "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations – entangling alliances with none." Our role as the world's policeman hasn't done much for Americans except cost us lives and money.