North Korea has a successful nuclear test (North Korea's Nuclear Weapons)

[bravo22]

the region is completely unstable.

I live in the UAE (when not in university) and there's no instability there afaik.

I would say the same for Egypt, Oman, Kuwait, Jordan, Qatar, and Bahrain.

Don't generalize an entire region based on what's going on in one country. That's like saying the entire eastern side of Asia is a communist dictatorship just because of North Korea.

[Warsaw]

The vast majority of eastern Asia by landmass is a communist dictatorship though...

I wouldn't say the entire region is unstable, but I would say that it brews a great deal of trouble.

[ICEE]

I think we need to get the fuck out of everyone else's business and fix our own shit first. Unless theres a vital necessity (such as kim jong il being a massive nukefag), we should leave people the fuck alone. I think that would allow us to focus our resources on our current economical issues and such, and probably bring the world's opinion of us up quite a bit.

[Warsaw]

The problem with that type of policy is that everyone starts ragging on us for not doing anything to help out the other countries...it's basically lose-lose for the USA.

[Dwood]

I say do what we can to prevent enemies from forming alliances strong enough to fight us and forget what their opinion of us are, they arent helping the situation

[TeeKup]

The problem with that type of policy is that everyone starts ragging on us for not doing anything to help out the other countries...it's basically lose-lose for the USA.

That's something I believe we need to just bear with. Personally I wouldn't mind a good 10 years of isolation to reform some things in this country.

[sleepy1212]

That's something I believe we need to just bear with. Personally I wouldn't mind a good 10 years of isolation to reform some things in this country.

agreed. besides, 90% of the haters would die of starvation if we left.

[thehoodedsmack]

agreed. besides, 90% of the haters would die of starvation if we left.

I don't think you fully understand the consequences of cutting off all trade ties. America is in no position to make economic threats.

[sleepy1212]

I don't think you fully understand the consequences of cutting off all trade ties. America is in no position to make economic threats.

I don't think you fully understand sarcasm.

I doubt anyone is seriously suggesting total isolation. More likely it's just the idea that we should deal with problems at home.

[ICEE]

Not trade isolation, we just need to stop throwing our weight around.

I don't think we should be concerned about people bitching about us not helping people either. Seems like everybody wants to bite the hand that feeds anyways.