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In reply to the discussion: Whoever you support for president in 2016, what foreign policy plank do you want Dems to run on? [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)16. It's not "isolationism"-that word implies that the only way we can be involved in the world
is to threaten force or actually use it to bend the world to "our" will.
Could we not find positive, non-arrogant methods of engaging with the rest of the planet? Ways that included the people as well as the elites?
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Whoever you support for president in 2016, what foreign policy plank do you want Dems to run on? [View all]
Ken Burch
Feb 2013
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I care about social issues, domestic issues. the war stuff I don't care one way or another
graham4anything
Feb 2013
#1
All the candidates are on the same ticket...but you have primaries and a convention
Ken Burch
Feb 2013
#12
HHH was not a good politician. Sad but true. Great man, not a great politician.
graham4anything
Feb 2013
#33
The poll included an option to suggest what YOU think our foreign policy should be.
Ken Burch
Feb 2013
#19
What views did you want to express in this thread that you felt you couldn't?
Ken Burch
Feb 2013
#30
I'm with you on that one. We've got our noses in too many other people's business.
Gorp
Feb 2013
#11
It's not "isolationism"-that word implies that the only way we can be involved in the world
Ken Burch
Feb 2013
#16
Agreed. You can engage with the world without invading it. Many countries do just that.
pampango
Feb 2013
#27
Military intervention only when our national interests are clearly at stake or an ally is attacked.
TwilightGardener
Feb 2013
#10
Attacks on our military personnel or citizens, or imminent attacks that can't be deterred
TwilightGardener
Feb 2013
#21
Would you agree that the public should be told, at all times, What our "interests" are seen to be?
Ken Burch
Feb 2013
#23