"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe." -- John MuirBrooklyn wrote: ↑Fri Nov 10, 2023 10:09 amFarfromgeneva wrote: ↑Fri Nov 10, 2023 9:42 am
This makes no sense. As if these are mutually exclusive. That would be incorrect as the overlap is tremendous. The idea that you can bifurcate this country’s interested from the world is NOT progressive at all. Not one bit.
I never claimed to be progressive, just a political realist who is concerned about what goes on HERE in the USA. There is no overlap as you say. What goes on overseas is no concern of ours. The only ones who favor war are those who profit from it. I don't and neither will the vast majority of the populace. Those who want a war are free to enlist in the military or in some mercenary group overseas. To me, the better course is and will always be to work on fixing the problems we have here.
"What goes on overseas is no concern of ours."
What? How is that even possible? The US exists within many different systems that link all of humanity. This is an incredible, and I do mean not believable, position. Please clarify this statement.
Or, were you employing hyperbole as a rhetorical device, meaning to indicate emphasis on a relatively disengaged foreign policy?