The thing is, you presented 2 cases of what might be viewed as isolationism with a decent time gap between them.
Now, I pointed out many times where this didn't happen before your second example took place. My purpose was to show isolationist examples are kind of unreal (Despite George Washington's best wishes for the future of USA). What you call isolationism during that time I see as lack of interest, not policy.
Thanks for the ad hom, by the way. They're quite effective.
The problem is, every time we've tried an isolationist policy, the rest of the world messes things up and drags us in. The famous example is WW2, when Americans (but not Roosevelt) were extremely reticent to get involved, and then Japan attacked us anyway. Hitler would have eventually too, if he'd reached his goals.
Am I missing a certain incident with Spain in Cuba? And what about the Philippines? Also, do you remember a guy named Monroe? How's apparently assuming responsibility of a whole continent isolationist?
I'm not altogether sure that US isolationist policy stopped only after WWII.
I don't believe that every problem around the world can be solved by sending your military over there and "taking control" of the situation.
I understand you. I've felt the same way but the whole issue is making me think if going to a country that controls me in such a way (by inducing fear) is really worth living in, no matter what the technology benefits.
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You're basically calling for ignorance of things that "might" hurt us, if I didn't interpret it wrongly.
We're better off without X knowledge. X knowledge is experience.
Fire will still burn even if we don't know about it. But if we DO know, some of us might be wise enough to avoid touching it.
It's a complicated issue but it seems that he deliberately changed (by asking an employee) the setup to exploit a specific software bug.
What happens if it was an ATM and it kept giving you money which wasn't really on your bank account each time you pressed a specific combination.
Are you entitled to that money because you did nothing wrong? Is the bank entitled to charge you for a mistake they made?
If anyone, ever, develops a software that detects sarcasm in texts he will beat Zuckerberg and Gates combined.... :P
There's so many people in dire need of it.
How is Opera "Chrome Fast"? Shouldn't it be Chrome that is almost opera fast?
Based on both age and lots of tests...
The stack concept is an interesting alternative to Firefox's panorama. I find the former convenient with a small amount of tabs.
OK. Maybe I do miss reading comprehension.
The thing is, you presented 2 cases of what might be viewed as isolationism with a decent time gap between them.
Now, I pointed out many times where this didn't happen before your second example took place. My purpose was to show isolationist examples are kind of unreal (Despite George Washington's best wishes for the future of USA). What you call isolationism during that time I see as lack of interest, not policy.
Thanks for the ad hom, by the way. They're quite effective.
Basic people don't know about advanced search... They will NEVER use a feature unless it's systematically forced upon them.
The problem is, every time we've tried an isolationist policy, the rest of the world messes things up and drags us in. The famous example is WW2, when Americans (but not Roosevelt) were extremely reticent to get involved, and then Japan attacked us anyway. Hitler would have eventually too, if he'd reached his goals.
Am I missing a certain incident with Spain in Cuba? And what about the Philippines? Also, do you remember a guy named Monroe? How's apparently assuming responsibility of a whole continent isolationist?
I'm not altogether sure that US isolationist policy stopped only after WWII.
I don't believe that every problem around the world can be solved by sending your military over there and "taking control" of the situation.
I understand you. I've felt the same way but the whole issue is making me think if going to a country that controls me in such a way (by inducing fear) is really worth living in, no matter what the technology benefits.
I'm going to blow your mind. I'll run a website that will allow for 145 characters. 160 if you upgrade. Progress is coming.