Quote:I think that is way too simplistic. I guess we should crawl in a hole and hope everything turns out ok. 

 

Glad your viewpoint did not hold sway when allies needed assistance during World War II. I don't think isolationism is in America's best interest. I don't know of any serious politician who thinks so.

 

There's a whole lot of scaling back we could do before Isolation even becomes a topic. 

 

WWII happened because of foreign intervention, sanctions on Germany after WWI is what gave Hitler the political opportunity to rise to power.

 

The majority of the time our aid has the opposite effect of it's stated goal, common sense says we either don't give it to the right people (hell we give it to everyone) or it just simply doesn't work the way we think it does. All of this doesn't even account to the fact that we don't have the money to give away in the first place. 

 

Simplistic is ignoring the fact that every dollar we give away is a dollar we are borrowing and further compromising our own national security. What comes first our security or the rest of the world? If we where not running a deficit every year then we could argue if foreign aid is something beneficial but at 17 trillion and counting it shouldn't even be a topic for discussion.

---