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Originally Posted by chesapeake
I also meant to point out that, before Bush II, you could argue that this has been the fundamental foreign policy of the United States for 225 years. No policy is 100 percent perfect, but I gotta say that not seeking fights and being tough enough to take a punch has served our nation very well for a long time.
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To be fair, it's become a helluva lot easier to throw a punch in the past 225 years. Isolationism's easy when it's actually possible to be isolated.
There's also a difference between picking fights and using preemptive force. Do we require our police officers to shoot everyone they stop for a traffic violation? Of course not. But we also don't insist that they take a bullet before they can shoot at someone who poses a threat to them.
If we wouldn't expect it to be a good policy for the individual police officer or soldier, why on earth would it be a good policy for a military?