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Not only did we create such wealth, how much of it do we, as a country, distribute across the globe, for the express purpose of building hospitals, providing food, assisting in educating the poor, etc. etc.? Can anyone even quantify the trillions of dollars we have provided to all nations and peoples, whether in direct aid for the aforementioned items, or in military assistance (saving Europe's ass in WWI & WWII, for example), or in the rebuilding of ruined cities, or to prop up broken economies??? When will our nation be recognized for any of the GOOD that we do, any of the POSITIVE things we bestow upon all humanity? Maybe it's time to withdraw into an isolationist corner again, and let the rest of the world devise solutions to all their problems without ANY of our aid and assistance.

We've gotten absolutely no credit for it, have we? You just can't buy friendship.

Isolationism is frowned on nowadays, and has been for a long time. But I've been an isolationist at heart for as long as I can remember; if we supplemented our current level of defense spending with all the foreign aid we currently give out and declared our neutrality in world affairs, I'm convinced we could be amicable trading partners with all the nations of the world and yet quickly defeat ANY Axis of Evil that dared to take us on.

The problem is how could we deal with the fallout caused by their nuclear wars with one another? I just don't see any way to do it, but to actively deny them the right to have such weapons; i.e., to be the world's policeman in that regard. And there goes our isolationism. Too bad, because I would really, really, really LOVE to live in a neutral, isolationist America.

The Framers warned us about getting involved in foreign wars, but they never dreamed of nukes. :-(