[Burdened White Man]

The effect is little removed from isolationism.

If surrendering the responsibility to serve as the world's policeman may be labeled "isolationism" than so be it. Time for our allies to step up to the plate and policew their own backyards. This is outside the context of the War on Terror which, like Pearl Harbor, calls for retaliation.

[hchutch]

Sorry, if being the "world's policeman" means we don't have to retaliate for an act like 9/11 or Pearl Harbor, I'll take that every time.

Two oceans CANNOT protect us any more. Not when an ICBM can arrive and ruin the day of an entire city in less time than it takes Domino's to deliver a pizza.

Like it or not, if we don't deal with some situations now, that's what we face. Buchanan has his head in the sand.