https://twitter.com/touchmybobby/status/833156775931174912
> as a job-stealing immigrant, I now have 36 jobs and counting. I keep them in my basement like some kind of job dragon. what you gonna do
Re:Author of cURL denied entry to the USA
by jmeyers44 on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @07:22AM
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While it is true US foreign policy favored isolationism pre-WWII, calling current restrictions on immigration into the US "isolationist" is a conflation of the term. The US maintains a global military presence and there is no evidence this will change until another state actor (or a coalition of state actors) forcibly shrinks the US global footprint. In George Friedman's book, "The Next 100 Years" the central theme to current US foreign policy is that, as a global super power, the US will actively seek to destabilize regions of the world that threaten its interests now and in the future. That simple guideline can help to understand the lionshare of American foreign policy decisions post WWII and is of course, not an isolationist policy whatsoever.
Edit: spelling of Friedman
Re:Author of cURL denied entry to the USA
by boomboomsubban on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @08:26AM
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>The US has generally been quite isolationist.
Complete propaganda, the US tried to avoid European wars while profiting off them as much as possible. During this, they conquered huge areas of Native American, Mexican, Asian, and South American lands.
Both before WW1 and before WW2 there were really strong isolationist currents in US politics. I think that it's part of the "Chine syndrome": they're big, kind of isolated and mostly self-sufficient (or perceive themselves to be so).
People seem to have forgotten that the US opening during and after WW2 turned the US into the world's #1 super power. I guess it's hard to look farther ahead when you have pressing issues straight in front of you (immigrants "stealing jobs" and such).