[proxy_user]

He leaves out isolationism.

Don't let any foreigners in. Guard your borders with a strong military. Let people living in foreign countries defend themselves and solve their own problems.

I don't think it's feasible nowadays, since we want to meddle in everyone's business and tell everyone how they ought to live, but it's the way things used to be.

[Tennessean4Bush]

Guard your borders with a strong military. Let people living in foreign countries defend themselves and solve their own problems.

So, is that the approach America should have taken in 1941?

Or, should we merely have attacked Japan and left Europe to fight Hitler?

[jackibutterfly]

"I don't think it's feasible nowadays, since we want to meddle in everyone's business and tell everyone how they ought to live, but it's the way things used to be."

WE'RE telling everybody how to live???? Come on! Sadaam wasn't, Osama isn't, the terrorist aren't, no dictator is telling everyone how to live. Just us. That's very interesting. How come they have the right to do that, and we don't? Dictatorship is better than democracy? I'd rather have us (the U.S) telling the world how to live than the Islamic extremists. What about you? What would YOU have??

[inquest]

Decent point. It's especially troublesome when our meddling actually helps the Islamists, as in Israel and in the Balkans.