5. There's also an efficiency-robustness tradeoff, always and everywhere. Domestic production and stockpiles are robust against disasters; global supply chains and just-in-time inventory are cheaper but more fragile, all else equal.
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16. Internationalism has bad points and good points. The bad part: lots of war. The good part: sorry but a lot of American values are good actually. I *want* girls to get to leave home and go to school or work and keep their money in their pocket and have a room of their own.
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17. All that Disney-princess stuff. "I wanna be where the people are". "How far I'll go." "I can show you the world." "There must be more than this provincial life." It's ... poignant. It's a real thing. And it's a very American-universalist thing.
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It seems that if the U.S. went back to acknowledging this, and we dropped the magical convergence of global interests theory, it would be an entirely different game. Right or wrong, it would be way more workable than this. We have to acknowledge that different interests exist.
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