[Tinian]

Is there a FR ping list for the totally anti-free trade, anti-anything foreign Isolationist Crowd?

If not, I think it would be worth starting because it would be mighty popular!

[Reaganwuzthebest]

If not, I think it would be worth starting because it would be mighty popular!

Sounds good, why don't you start one up and please put me on it. As long as there's politicians in high offices who prefer to hand over the candy store of America to every failed third world banana republic led by delusional generalissimos and other assorted loonies then I think we need to stay informed.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

“Is there a FR ping list for the totally anti-free trade, anti-anything foreign Isolationist Crowd? If not, I think it would be worth starting because it would be mighty popular!”

I’m in.

[Regulator]

Just for grins, maybe you could learn the origin of the political use of the word "Isolationism" in the United States.

It referred to the reluctance of the U.S. to engage in European wars, and was only peripherally about "free trade".

Mr. Bush likes to sling the word around in that context, but in so doing, he is banking on the history challenged like yourself to swallow the line, and not worrying about the rest of us who do remember it in the original context.

BTW, if you're enamored of the politics and social nature of foreign countries, and not this one, no one's stopping you from moving.