re: #94 Arkansawyer

This was my biggest issue during the election. Foreign policy experience is an absolute must for anyone seeking the presidency. My libertarian friends think we should retract from the rest of the world and “be done with it”. When I tell them if them that were to happen too quickly, then it would be catastrophic to our allies and the world at large, they couldn’t care less. One even went so far as to say that was good and it’d be “their problem”. They have zero foresight as to the consequences. It can be maddening talking to them sometimes.

It’s not 1918, America isn’t so self-sufficient that it could afford to withdraw back to its own borders and function in anything but a disjointed manner. We need our allies as much as they need us, in some cases more because we rely upon them for the raw materials that we turn into finished products for our domestic market, and countries like Russia would be eager to move in and cut that lifeline.