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In today’s post I wanted to take it back to the old days. Pre-World War Two days. In that time of world turmoil U.S. citizens thanked god for the Atlantic ocean and thus the separation that we had with other countries. The word for this ideal was “Isolationism.”

Fast forward to today. Russia is essentially telling us to mind our own business and they’ll mind theirs. North Korea is backing down from their earlier agreement to disarm their nuclear capabilities. Iran is closing in on nuclear capabilities and has shown no signs of stopping. Pakistani soldiers, supposedly our allies, fired on a U.S. helicopter that crossed the Afghanistan border. On top of it the taxpayers are funding two wars on two fronts. These are just some of the problems going on outside of the states. Inside, things aren’t going all that great either. Indeed these are troubled times.

After World War Two the U.S. made a promise that genocide like the holocaust wouldn’t happen again. Since then we have been at war in some corner of the globe almost every century. Is it really our responsibility to monitor the entire world? How can we afford to keep doing this at the expense of our own citizens?

Selfish? Yes, incredibly. Good for the American people? Yes. Also incredibly. Think of it as “investing in America.” If we pooled all of our funding and resources into our own country, then think of all the great things we’d be able to accomplish.

Back in those days America was known as the land of opportunity. It was a beacon of hope, a symbol of freedom for all of the world. Other countries looked up to us. Do we still hold those same values now? No, eight years of Bush foreign policy has all but shredded any integrity we had with other countries. Instead of the land of opportunity we’ve become a nation of struggling workers. Many of us just struggling to find a job.