| Fmeh, rather than cut off all these countries, wouldn't it be better to entice them to join the modern world, which they are gradually doing anyway? The older generations in some of these places still have a pretty high illiteracy rate, but the young are getting educated and that will trigger a lot of change which we can support.
I don't see a way for it not to take some time and I agree we should protect ourselves against possible adverse effects, but I don't see a benefit from cutting people off from modernity. It would just add fuel to the fire. |