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the reality though is that such groups usually aren't that powerful and it is a necessary evil because unfortunately isolationism does not stop people from whipping themselves into a frenzy of senseless hate against you.
First off, I don't agree with "isolationism". But a non-interventionist foreign policy. That means trade with nations and talk with nations, but not blowing them up when they disagree with you. And that's exactly where
people whipping themselves into a frenzy of senseless hate against you.
comes from.
Second, there were plenty other factors I'm sure that provoked the Japanese into attacking Pearl Harbor; not selling oil was definitely one of them.
The utilitarian part of me supports an aggressive neo-con foreign policy.
Sad to see that you do. That's the kind of foreign policy that breeds that kind of hatred. And then people wonder why there's attacks (attempted or successful) on U.S. soil.