Today during our Treaty of Versailles 'pre-debate' I was thinking about the views of the people who don't want the treaty at all. I remember while reading that they felt we should have just isolated ourselves from all of Europe. I'm not sure how anyone would find that to be a realistic solution. Europe contained a good amount of our trading, even if not most of it, I'm sure there were things in Europe that would be harder to get from other countries. Europe also was where a lot of our immigrants came from; I'm not sure how those European immigrants in Congress could have felt this way. I guess I'm wondering if there was a way we could have just isolated ourselves and for it to work out. If so, could we use a similar technique today in a similar case, and why wouldn't the other countries get mad and gang up on us?
Posted by Madison
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Thursday, December 08, 2005
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Well, we came from an isolationist tradition. TR tried to change the way we were thinking about all of that during his presidency with the emphasis on a great navy and a muscular foreign policy.
But soon after the Great War was over, we soon reverted back to our isolationist views. The Senate voted down the treaty, and we continued to live with our heads in the sand until Dec. 7, 1941.
Like you said, Madison, we can't ignore Europe b/c of our immigrant influences. As one of my U.S. History students said today, "we're all hyphenated Americans."
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