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Originally Posted by LTs1ow
Yea I know, we could take over mexico and canada though and then say peace to the rest of the world.. .. 
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MMMM, canadian bacon tacos FTW. lol.
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Originally Posted by Frosty
Most aren't, most are just like us aside from coming from a different culture. But the minority of that religion/culture are the ones making waves, the ones wanting to kill every non-Muslim. You can choose to bury your head in the sand and not believe that but religion is a driving force behind it. The Muslim community really needs to step up and silence and fight these extremists.
I honestly would love for us to become isolationists again like in the late 1800's/early 1900's but it's impossible. We've pissed away most of our manufacturing base and other key economic industries....plus it's really a global economy. Leave us alone and we'll leave you alone...mess with us and we'll obliterate you...but that's just a pipe dream.
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I think a small percentage of terrorists are fighting because of our innability to convert to Islam, but IMO, if they were mainly set on attacking our religion, they would of bombed churches, synagoges ( probably spelled that wrong), but instead they attacked our Government and financial sectors ( Pentagon and WTC). Now maybe they are looking to swipe our legs out from under us before they attack our religious sectors, but wouldn't they of also attacked like the Vatican and what not by now?
As for the isolation from the world, I agree to a part, we lent too much our our dependancy to overseas manufacturing, which prevents us from giving the world the big one-finger salute when **** hits the fan, but also places like China, who hold 95% of the worlds precious metals that are used in things like microchips, missile and rocket navigation, etc, to lock them out we would fall behind.
Now as superior as we might become if we were to became isolated again, there would be a snag. We could become too isolated, and looking at how North Korea turned out, there would be a point where we would have to stay globally connected. I do feel our hand should stay out of most international problems, and our money should not be used in aid unless we the people donate it. Why? we give and give, and yet **** is still shoved in our faces from other countries.
We need to stop trading with China Period, or at least put a cap on manufacturing percentage over there. They are fueling North Korea, and what kind of sway do we have in words when we owe THEM Billions in debt, and more then 60% of our basic products here are produced there.
I will say if there is one thing to model after China is how they produce. They have the majority of raw material brought in from the country they are manufacturing for ( import profit) they produce it there and then ship it back out (manufacturing and export fee) We, on the other hand dig up our own raw material and ship them out. So we miss a key point for profit making, AND we waste our own raw material here for someone else.
Or we could shift our productions to Taiwan, a DEMOCRATIC country ( not Communist) and bring the jobs back here. I know alot of people out there could get a job, but they feel they are too good to do some manufacturing job, or wouldn't pay well, yet some pay is better then none. I think we are just plain lazy, and we have the idea, but no motivation to set things right.
We could do it if we wanted to America....but Dancing with the Stars is going to be on in 45 minutes, and I'll die If I don't get to see who is casted off, so bother me afterwards.
