[TheRealThing]

I'm no fan of NAFTA, etc., but it is also true that isolationism as economic policy costs jobs, and as foreign policy threatens security. In my view, balance and fairness is needed, not extremism in either direction.

There were a number of alternatives open to the US in the Iran nuclear negotiations other than total capitulation or war. But not if one listened to Mr Obama. Likewise, there are infinite alternatives open to the US versus NAFTA/TPP movement. The UK just did us a big favor in showing us how a nation cuts it's ties with blood sucking neighbors. England found her resources being syphoned off to the other 27 member nations of the EU in exchange for narrowing freedoms and personal opportunity.

The US should bail out of NAFTA (burn the TPP agreement to ashes and then bury them in a nuclear waste dump) then, with the same assurances and intentions England has made to her trade and defense partners, reclaim her sovereign right to control her own borders and trade in a way that makes sense for both sides, not just Mexico for example.

The short of it is this, we certainly had other options than war with Iran, and we have other options other than NAFTA and TPP.