Originally Posted by
Bruno
Yes, but America likes to exert influence in the entire world to swing things their way, get cheap oil, get access to minerals and ores, get favored trading status, get the US$ to be the currency for oil trade, etc. If the US would retract to within their boundaries, it would lose all the important foreign influence and basically be at the receiving end of global policies, not to mention that the dollar would no longer be propped up by those pesky middle eastern countries and nosedive.