<<Try to imagine a US as isolationist as it was in the run up to the World Wars . he resulting collapse of world economies ad world wide starvation would cause a war pretty quick. >>
That statement in itself is EXACTLY what "Sufficient unto the day" applies to. Refusing to deal with the problems of today and instead postulating all kinds of horrific speculation about what might happen in the future. When the "collapse of world economies" and "world-wide starvation" and the future war caused "pretty quick" happen - - IF they ever do - - then that is the time to deal with them. It is very hard to see how any of them are going to be prevented by the U.S. hanging onto Iraq for dear life and fighting an endless three-cornered war between Sunnis, Shiites and Haliburt . . , oops, I mean U.S., troops. It is very hard to see how any of them are going to be prevented by supporting Israeli oppression and continuing military occupation of the West Bank.
<<The Palestinians are hugging that tree too.
<<Everyone is.>>
Geeze, good thing the Palestinians aren't marching off a cliff into the ocean. Since when do "the Palestinians" show the U.S. how to conduct U.S. foreign policy?
<<The difference is that the Palestinians or the Al Quad will not suffer a genocide if they just give up and start making a honest living.>>
Neither will the U.S. suffer a genocide if it just gets out of Iraq and leaves the Iraqis to sort out their problems or not; all that will happen is they will have to pay for Iraqi oil to Iraqis on freely negotiated terms not dictated from the barrel of a gun; as to what the Palestinians will suffer if they "just give up and start to make an honest living" - - and I hope you will never say that to a Palestinian who is struggling desperately every single day under present Israeli military occupation to feed his or her family - - they do not have to suffer genocide to justify their struggle, what they are living through under the Israeli occupation is justification enough.
<<If the US trys to be aloof from the problems of the rest of the world , this not only betrays the spirit of Woodrow Wilson and John Kennedy . . . >>
Woodrow Wilson and John Kennedy told you to invade Iraq and support the occupation of the West Bank? They were colonialists? What if they were wrong? What if they never said that? What if they were dealing with a different world than today's world?
IMHO, it makes a lot more sense today to deal with the problems of today on their own merits, to the best of our own abilities, rather than trying to commune with the spirits of John Kennedy or Woodrow Wilson and try to figure out what they have to say about it. Just a little practical advice from a very practical person.
<< . . . it invites the formation of forces that cause world war.>>
Oh, that again. Right. Don't fix today's problem today, because bad things might then happen tomorrow.
Remember, plane: Sufficient unto the day (today) is the evil thereof.
Fix today's problem today. When tomorrow's problem arrives, deal with it. With all due respect to your prognosticating abilities, I just don't think you or anyone else knows for sure that world war, world starvation, etc. will follow if you pull out of Iraq and let the Iraqis sort out their own problems or cut off Israeli support and let them and the Palestinians sort things out for themselves. Your leaders ("Iraq is full of WMD; we can't wait any longer!") can't even seem to predict the present with any reassuring degree of accuracy, I would not place any faith at all in their predictions for the future. The fact is that nobody knows what will happen if the U.S. pulls out of Iraq and none of the predictions of dire and calamitous effects look like anything more than hysterical fear-mongering, called up out of desperation by failed politicians to continue their ruinous and disastrous policies without having to admit error and failure.