Quote Originally Posted by HoreTore
I disagree with that. Odin's view of things is quite radical and contrary to the status quo, but that doesn't mean it's not valid. He disagrees with you. That's about it. He seeks a US that will not meddle in foreign affairs and remain neutral unless attacked, I honestly can't see anything that's not fair about that.
Back in the day I argued fiercely enough with the forum's resident hawks to know what a view disagreeing from mine looks like. Odin's, in all honesty, just looks grossly irresponsible and callous, and patently fails to even try taking into account a considerable number of complications.

It is, in other words, basically knee-jerk brute-force populism. It is roughly analoguous to a kid who got picked on at the sandbox going to fetch his daddy's gun to shoot the other kid, "and then they'll be sorry and fear me and won't pick on me again"... if you see what I mean.

I can see a lot that's not fair, and more importantly sensible or grounded in reality, in that line of thinking.