[Barry the Sprout]

Yeah, I strongly doubt you could make that idea work - if you cease to gaurantee certain conditions for capital within your country then you simply won't attract it any more. The US will go to a large amount of effort to protect its interests, which is why so many companies continue to stay there. If you simply let the rest of the world alone then frankly what would you do to make money - who would you sell stuff to? And also, where would your cheap labour come from? You want to relocate all the Third World sweatshops to America?

And, just to clarify as this has been said before and took me some time to put down then, I'm not anti american. In fact, I don't know anyone on here who is anti-American as such. I know a lot of people who oppose the US in their war on Iraq and their war on Afghanistan, but I know no people who oppose the Us because it is the US. I don't personally think it is possible to rationally oppose a country in every thing it does - you would have to oppose the abstract concept of that country, and most countries concepts are actually fairly non objcetionable, if they exist at all. This doesn't make a lot of sense, but I suppose what I mean is that sometimes people get paranoid that we oppose them just because they are American, thats not true. We oppose you on this issue because we think you're wrong. Its surely not that hard a concept to grasp...