There has been lots of talk about the Ron Paul position on non-intervetion and his supporters rapid defense of it as opposed to isolation as a national position. Lets clear up how the two work and more so how they are inseperable.
The basic premise of the non-intervention crowd is that we stay out of everyones business and we have no treaties or alliances, this later part is the core of non-intervention.
Isolation is more an economic stance of we produce and live off what we produce and become a self sustaining nation with no trade.
Now that we have a clear simple understanding of the two allow me to explain what some want to talk about as a outdated veiw of the world and how it would lead to full scale isolation and the end the end of America as we know it. The non-intervention model is a choice you can control no matter the flaws in the school of thought. Isolation can be impossed on you no matter how hard you try to avoid it and this is the part of the discussion they refuse to have.
The world has produced and invented 25% of all goods over the history of man in just the last 10 years..... Why and how is that? Simple, the technology revolution has lead to an interconnected globe on all levels. So unlike the steel revolution at the turn of the last century where many global countries did not participate this new technology revolution effects every person on the planet!
That said you can't just choose to not have alliances and treaties anymore, that ship has sailed. You have to have alliances for travel, for the electronic transfer of money (gold bars being shipped on a boat won't work), for use of vital resources (remember we are not going isolation here) and for the countless other vital needs from food to even water as the planet grows from 7 billion to 10 billion in the next 40 years.
However lets take all that off the table and assume that we do just go without alliances and treaties for a minute. The second we do the interconected world will cut us off! They will impose isolation on us as a punishment for pulling out of the global community and just walking away from our alliances and treaties. We will lose access to oil and resources at a fair market value, we will lose our trading partners (alliances) as they move to other countries that fill the void (China) and worst we will lose our position as the global leader and only true defender of freedom.
The last on that list above means we will be challanged at every point on the globe and worst because we gave up our alliances our military will be rendered useless as countries align against us. No protecting oil or food, no ensuring terrorist don't start attacking us here at home again and having the global community support us when we are attacked. Non-intervention is a 150 year old outdated philosophy at best and a sure ticket to forced isolation and the ultimate destruction of America at worst.
In short non-intervention is a childs view of the world we live in and 100% inseperable with isolation....the two go hand in hand!
More at: www.victorluebker.com
The basic premise of the non-intervention crowd is that we stay out of everyones business and we have no treaties or alliances, this later part is the core of non-intervention.
Isolation is more an economic stance of we produce and live off what we produce and become a self sustaining nation with no trade.
Now that we have a clear simple understanding of the two allow me to explain what some want to talk about as a outdated veiw of the world and how it would lead to full scale isolation and the end the end of America as we know it. The non-intervention model is a choice you can control no matter the flaws in the school of thought. Isolation can be impossed on you no matter how hard you try to avoid it and this is the part of the discussion they refuse to have.
The world has produced and invented 25% of all goods over the history of man in just the last 10 years..... Why and how is that? Simple, the technology revolution has lead to an interconnected globe on all levels. So unlike the steel revolution at the turn of the last century where many global countries did not participate this new technology revolution effects every person on the planet!
That said you can't just choose to not have alliances and treaties anymore, that ship has sailed. You have to have alliances for travel, for the electronic transfer of money (gold bars being shipped on a boat won't work), for use of vital resources (remember we are not going isolation here) and for the countless other vital needs from food to even water as the planet grows from 7 billion to 10 billion in the next 40 years.
However lets take all that off the table and assume that we do just go without alliances and treaties for a minute. The second we do the interconected world will cut us off! They will impose isolation on us as a punishment for pulling out of the global community and just walking away from our alliances and treaties. We will lose access to oil and resources at a fair market value, we will lose our trading partners (alliances) as they move to other countries that fill the void (China) and worst we will lose our position as the global leader and only true defender of freedom.
The last on that list above means we will be challanged at every point on the globe and worst because we gave up our alliances our military will be rendered useless as countries align against us. No protecting oil or food, no ensuring terrorist don't start attacking us here at home again and having the global community support us when we are attacked. Non-intervention is a 150 year old outdated philosophy at best and a sure ticket to forced isolation and the ultimate destruction of America at worst.
In short non-intervention is a childs view of the world we live in and 100% inseperable with isolation....the two go hand in hand!
More at: www.victorluebker.com
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