>>>Nope. US companies and/or their interests would still be free to setup shop wherever they wanted. Just don't come crying to "me" if a country "nationalizes" your business. My point is getting goverment the hell out of our lives as much as possible. Let's looks at something on a very small and local scale - smoking in restaurants. NO gov't should have the right to tell a private business owner how they have to deal with smoking in their establishment. If he or she decides to allow smoking, then the "public" has the right to NOT go in there. If this impacts the business negatively, then the owner has the right to prohibit smoking. If you do not like a particular TV show, YOU have the right to change the channel or turn of the TV. Just don't whine to the FCC regarding your lack of self-control or discipline.
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>>The fact is, I agree with you about the smoking bans, but other than that, what you seemed to have been advocating all along is that your government should get out of your faces and leave you alone, and go get in the faces of people in other countries where they belong.
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>>IMHO, doing as you suggest would not stop them from hating the U.S. administration, but I doubt they'd any longer be very interested in attacking. Of course, if the U.S. did that, I doubt you could survive for very long. Letting them all fend for themselves would certainly also mean fending for yourselves. The U.S. would consume itself from within very quickly like the snake that ate it's own tale. Can you imagine the austerity that would be demanded from the populace? This situation would last about a blink.
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>See my reply at Re: The President is Proud Thread #1067227 Message #1067472
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>In addition to getting gov't out of our lives, I also advocate getting our gov't out of the "faces" of other countries. I am also just stirring the pot here by illustrating the absurdity of the opposite extreme from what Keven, et al, are positing here.

Without the United States presence in key areas and countries of the world, we will all be in hell sooner than later.