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If investments are tied to using our military to defend other countries, those investors will have to look elsewhere. Security is more important.

Security is great, but a gun in the hand does nothing unless you have business to keep food on the table.

Security is exactly what investors look for, just not the kind of security you are speaking of. Investors and companies look to put their money in places that will be able to do international business and that trade routes to other countries will always remain open and stable. It is specifically because of the security that the US brings to itself and its partners that people and companies put their money here -- they feel comfortable that things are not likely to change so drastically at a moment's notice.

I also don't see out opting out of treaties that promise the use of our military as a sign of instability. I think it would make America MORE stable, and offer more incentive to invest.

Again, not the kind of stability you are thinking of. In today's environment, the ability to do business internationally is the most critical aspect. If you have no one to do business with overseas on a constant, secure, and stable level, then there are no expansion or investment opportnities for you. Your own stability comes first, but quickly behind it comes the stability of your trading partners and the US has succeeded in this specifically because the US helps keep its partners secure.

You seem to support a "one world government" and that is a nightmare of unimaginable proportions to me.

I do not support a "one world government" and that is not what I'm talking about -- I'm just stating what the current state of international business is: a collection of governments that all back one another and, through their collective strength, have come to dominate and succeed through their agreements.

While we are in one world, that world is made up of different cultures and countries and it's best this way. Keeping power divided prevents tyrrany. I can't even imagine the tyrrany of a single world government with unlimited powers.

Diversity in the world is a good thing, but there has been a single dominating factor in international business for the more than the past one hundred years: the almighty US dollar. That dollar doesn't hold its stength in gold backing or the ability of this country to freely trade -- that dollar is accepted practically everywhere in this world because the US has the power it does, it exerts the power it does, and there is an incredible stability between the US and all of its allies across the globe. People see the US and our allies as an incredible, powerful business trading empire. Why? Because everyone knows that business will go about uninterrupted between all of our partners and investments will remain stable and secure. If the US were to back down on all of the agreements it has with other countries and essentially become a defensive island that welcomes free trade, you would see the value of the dollar hit rock bottom -- the trust in it and all it represents to the international community would fail, just as the security and trust of other countries would flounder.