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09-17-2009, 03:24 AM
The US doesn't take the long view. This is historical, the orginal colonies put off the slave issue until it started a civil war. It's just our nature, we see things in now and tommorrow...not 20 years from now.
I understand the flaw in that rationalization. Still, thinking too far ahead doesn't make sense either. If you focus on traffic 20 miles from you, you will miss the traffic right in front of you. Still, the US used to be heavy into isolationism, not even 100 years ago. Don't think it might not consider that option again in the future. Some folks in the world might be glad if that happened, but I doubt they would stay glad very long.
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