Isolationism is like this. You buy a house in a nice neighborhood. You spend all your time fixing it up and making improvements without regard for you neighbors. One day you look outside the window and the old "nice" neighborhood is gone, the old neighbors are gone and the area is turning into a ghetto. Well it's too late for you and your nice house to change things now. You are now on an island and pretty soon your nice house will be dragged down like the rest of the neighborhood. The world is now effectively a global economy and terrorism is not limited to distant shores. Many people forget that in the late 30's an overwhelming number of Americans did not want to participate in WW2 feeling that Hitler was Europe's problem. Blaming American foreign policy for terrorism is like blaming the rape victim for wearing suggestive clothing.
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