McCain wins Wisconsin and slams Obama: Includes video link (1 Viewer)

By "focused internally" do you mean "conquered, massacred, and forced off the inhabitants of vast stretches of empty land that we then used to fuel our economic growth through immigration"?

Are you advocating we invade Canada?

I was speaking of "internal impovements" -- railroads, roads, ports, canals, mining enterprises etc. Investment in America's productive capacity and the infrastructure necessary to support it.

To some, no doubt, the removal of the Indians was indeed an improvement.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Removal_Act

How about I modify it to state, "focused on our immediate sphere of vital interest."

As you correctly note though, we were never "isolationist." The entire 1800s almost there was some sort of tension between us, Canada/Britain, and Mexico, with periodic war, and there were also little military adventures into the Caribbean and South America.

But since Woodrow Wilson, the League of Nations and now the UN we have foresworn all that. "Self-determination." "Inviolability of borders."

The myth of isolationism was created in order to convince the electorate that we needed to meddle on the other side of the planet inplaces that are far outside our sphere of "vital national interests" in pursuit of goals that enrich narrow special interests.
 
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How about I modify it to state, "focused on our immediate sphere of vital interest."

It's still a bad statement.

The peaks of American power, economic and otherwise, and well-being were.....1945-1953 after the second World War and 1993-1999 after the Cold War.



Not in 1900 :shrug:

We've done fine competing on the world stage, we've just done consistently poor at consolidating gains.
 
McCain: Soft on Al Qaeda?
http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/02/mccain_soft_on_al_qaeda.html

This is somewhat of a rehash of what was said in earlier pages, but there's a great quote:

"McCain's loose, inaccurate talk continues a sad pattern he has shown on national security matters, particularly with regard to Iraq, where he is a loose cannon, firing off hot-button words like "victory" and "surrender"--words that his hero General David Petraeus has never and would never use."



McCain seems to have stepped in it with his attack on Obama for what he said about Pakistan.
 
Obama speaking well wont assure good/bad presidency just as McCain not speaking well wont assure good/bad presidency.
 

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