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...Laotian authorities are handling the case of the detained journalists and their Hmong companions reflects the viciousness of the regime's hard-line, isolationist stance. Officials in Laos say Falise and Reynaud could face a charge of murder, which carries a maximum sentence of death and a minimum of 10 years in jail. (It's not known if U.S. citizen Mua will face the same charge.) So far, the response from the detained foreigners' governments has been muted. They may be banking on quiet diplomacy to free the trio. But in the long run, unless the international community is willing...
...ridiculous to anyone who has spent any significant amount of time eating at a non-Quincy dining hall. Interhouse restrictions are the result of the naturally unequal distribution of dining hall traffic caused by geography and quality of cuisine, not (as Kane seems to think) simply out of isolationist community building. If Kane were willing to eat at non-peak times (before 5:30 or after 6:30 pm) or with a resident of the house, she would find Adams House quite welcoming...
...because, currently, he does not have either his party or his people on board. Europeans have not been encouraged by the present American administration’s retreat from the Kyoto agreement, from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, and from open trade. Indeed, the United States is seen as isolationist as well as unilateralist...
Americans deserve better choices than this Administration is offering. To begin, the U.S. must stop being an environmental isolationist and again work with our global allies. We should re-engage now, so we are the masters of our own destiny...
They remember only too well the last round against Saddam - when Bush the Elder refused to go the last mile and topple Saddam in 1991. They remember America's isolationist reflexes in Bosnia and Kosovo - "Let's bomb 'em and get out." Allies loathe entrapment in indeterminate wars that leave them holding the bag. Listen to German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer make the point. Does the U.S. understand, he asks, that victory has to be followed by a "complete reordering of the Middle East, above all politically?" This might "require a U.S. presence that could last for decades...