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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jay: [QB] I must say that the world of 1939 was a very different one than the one in which we live today. Historically, there were people like Charles Lindberg, a staunch conservative, who believed strongly that the goings on in Europe was a matter that should be handled by the Europeans. Lindberg and those who believed his isolationist rhetoric were very much against the United States getting involved in what they saw as WWI being replayed. To point a fact, Woodrow Wilson was elected on an anti-American involvement platform before WWI and eventually changed. However, seeing America as an island whole and unto itself is a regressionist policy. One of the few politicians to believe that the events in Europe posed a threat to democracy around the world was Roosevelt. And even he had to go under the table and around the barn to give war supplies to Great Britian and the Soviet Union. Lend Lease proved critical in a couple of ways. Firstly and most obvious is the critical material that was funneled to the Soviets and the British. But secondly, Roosevelt began, through Lend Lease, to put a portion of America's industiral base on a war footing. Thereby gearing up for war. In a small way Lindberg is correct. The actions of Hitler should have been dealt with by the European community of countries that were directly affected by agression and who had placed Germany in such a tight box after the Versailles Treaty of 1919. But in a much larger sence Roosevelt was correct that isolationist non action on the part of the United States would prove to be an even greater folly in the face of such agression. However, to say that the United States should pull back to that sort of isolationism, the sort proposed by Lindberg, during the current age in which we live is just silly. The United States and all of humanity is dependent on a healty world. Some say U.S. should close the borders and turn a deaf ear to the tired and poor of the rest of the world. That is unless we have a U.S. coporation actively economically exploiting the populace of a thrid world county, like say Honduras, or to say that we will only help countries, like say Honduras, becase the leadership in said country promotes such policies that allow the continued exploitation of workers by the U.S. coporations is just as silly. For humanitarian reasons, actions like the ones taken against the Serbs should be taken when people are being killed and removed from an area simply for what comes down to religious and ethnic reasons. There comes a time in the eventual advancement of Civilization that we can no longer collectivity accept actions like rape and murder couched in nationalistic rhetoric. Moreover, actions like the ones taken by NATO must be more even handed and extend to the problems of Africa. For example, the LA Times recently ran an article with these statistics. Amount U.N. refugee agency spends daily per refugee: Balkins: $1.23...Africa: $.11. In Africa: the camps hold as many as 500,000 people. Up to 6,000 die a day from cholera and other public emergencies. In Macedonia: the largest camps holds 33,000. The have been no deaths from public health emergencies so far. Medical Care: In Africa at some camps, there is 1 doctor per 100,000 refugees. In Madedonia the ratio in some camps is 1 doctor per 700 refugees. The idea here is not to say that one instance is worse than another. But if justice is to be doled out, let it be done without regard to race, religion, class, or gender. And in this ever shrinking world, let it be done on an even basis, without regard to politics, and without that ever present ideology of "National Interest" in mind. Damn that is a "liberal" concept, but don't you think that after 3000 years that we work together to eliminate such petty land grabs? Until such a time we are going to remain a petty, warlike, and insignificant race of beings. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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