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Subject: Re: Why are foreigners who have never set foot in the US obsessed with how much and how we Posted on: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 17:23:40 GMT

On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:29:16 -0700, Hatunen wrote:


>
>One has to face the fact that the US was indeed highly
>isolationist up until Pearl Harbor. "Sitting on its hands" seems
>a bit strongly worded, but it's more or less accurate. There were
>certainly many intervention-minded people and politicians but on
>the whole the American people weren't interested in pulling
>European chestnuts out of the fire at the cost of American lives
>again.

Any more than we are now.