Do you think it would be possible for the US to isolate themselves from foreign countries and their issues?

No. Too much world-wide economic "interchange."

One difference between conservatives and liberals: Conservatives are guided by TRUTH. Liberals try to GUIDE the Truth.

Republican since before she was born… and PROUD of it.

The point is to neither be isolationist nor a policeman.

We are entering a globalized world, which represents for humanity a state of interdependence never before experienced in human history. However similar crises have appeared in natural communities countless times. In essence per their model, we will become less and less able to control our destiny as individuals and more dependent upon global collaboration--a mutually responsible one. The nature of this will be not just lateral, but vertical--up and down the hierarchy of organizations from international regional entities, down to small communal organizations, businesses, and families.

We have no choice in this, but the longer it takes the world to properly shift to this multi-pole destiny, the more chaos and pain -- socio-economic to ecological-climactic we will suffer. -- Beyond this horizon though, a world of great hope beckons.

To understand a bit more of this idea, I would recommend the award-winning film, CROSSROADS--Labor Pains of a New World View, whose web site is given as source below (credits are included on the home page you will open to). You'll have the option of watching the full movie--about an hour in length, or just a 2 1/2 minute intro/trailer. I think that you will find it eye-opening on this issue, and well worth your time.

Not for the US. There may be some small country hidden in the jungle or high on a mountain somewhere that is totally self-sufficient, but not us. We could certainly interfere less than we do today, but every piece of our commerce is entwined with every other country through globalization, and there is no way to extract ourselves without endangering ours and the whole planet's economy.

I read somewhere the following observation,

that "Nature abhors a vacum."...something moves in to fill the void.

So too in human affairs....now more than ever before...we in America

belong to a "global villiage"...we can stand aside and let murderous individuals

and groups take control in certain parts of the world...perhaps we'll have "peace"

for a short time...but since we can not escape the consequences of living

on this planet...we will eventually pay a costly price.

Go back to Europe which allowed Hitler to slowly grow more powreful

without European intervention...until it was too late.

It may be a cleche, but history does repeat itself, many times to our detriment.

Do you want to give up that computer you sitting at?