>I call category 2 and 3 traitors or uniformed. #1 has a point but impractical as interwoven as we have made our economies and natural resource requirements. It would take years of planning to "withdraw" from the world. A good start would be to bring home all troops in Europe, today and take everything that is not bolted down that belongs to us.

Uniformed? Do you mean uninformed?

Why traitors? I'd say you belong to category 2. An external or internal locus of control (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locus_of_control) is merely an attribute. It doesn't make the person a traitor. A traitor is someone who betrays, simple as that.

I don't mind seeing all US troops leaving Europe. Do you really think that we still need them here? Well, perhaps that's the case, but I'm not aware of the reasons. It may well be an artefact from history that needs to be addressed. It can save your country a lot of money.

Take everything that is not bolted down that belongs to us. Do you refer here to those troops in Europe? Or to everything in the world that's owned by the US or US companies? In the latter case the reply is that the debt of the US and its companies to the rest of the world is enormous. You are all totally unable to pay that debt back if it was collected this year. If it was not for the dollar, your country would've been bankrupt long ago. As a matter of fact, I think that would've been a better scenario. The US would not have let it happen and instructed their citizens to consume not more than what was earned.