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[Kaan]

last time we ignored the world and focused internally... the world pulled us into the largest war known. Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. So even before the late 19th century the world wanted us involved. Japan paid a dear price for wanting us involved and so did the Germans after defeat. Since then we have been looked apon to save the world when ever anything happens.

Even if we pulled out today and closed our boarders and spent all the money internally for social issues... the government would have to be involved even more. Triming down the military would require more state side jobs for those displaced to go to... most likely to be picked up or subsadised by the feds.

Letting the world do its own thing would most likely encourage the price of our countries consumables to go up. Without maintaining stability in certain areas of the world, most of our exports would have to be bought up and destroyed (crops etc) by the government.

History does repeat itself. Before you want something we used to have... look at the devistation it caused. The global economy is a huge food chain... at some point you eat too much, get too fat, and the people start feeding on you. If you dont keep control of all the factors that influence your economy... you end up on the bottom... and it will cause more social issues than you could dream of... Depression, recession, higher taxes, etc. they all come from not managing your foriegn interests.