I am not a big supporter of economic boycott-I do not think it's effective and it holds the individuals of a country down. The most influence capitalism has between nations are with free trade.
I have no idea what Light of the World means-can you explain more?

I subscribe to the attitude that the people make the country. So if Hitler was doing his acts, as despicable as they were, I would not support action of war unless attacked by Nazi Germany. Japan attacked (most likely was allowed to by forces in America who moved the Navy to a cul de sac that could not be easily defended). Once preemptive action is allowed the line becomes blurry and the government allies lobby for what became today.

I am saying that those actions lead to or require a big government. What is the goal? Also, if one reads the history of the world, economic boycott with ships at coastlines etc usually led to full out physical war. I was surprised at how easily Rand talked about this subject in the interview. Maybe I should give her a pass. I subscribe to Light of the World; if others admire the Light then good, if other sdon't and attack it then hit back with > x100 force and go back to being The Light.

"A large-scale instance [of political smear-tactics], in the 1930’s, was the introduction of the word “isolationism” into our political vocabulary. It was a derogatory term, suggesting something evil, and it had no clear, explicit definition. It was used to convey two meanings: one alleged, the other real—and to damn both.

The alleged meaning was defined approximately like this: “Isolationism is the attitude of a person who is interested only in his own country and is not concerned with the rest of the world.” The real meaning was: “Patriotism and national self-interest.”

What, exactly, is “concern with the rest of the world”? Since nobody did or could maintain the position that the state of the world is of no concern to this country, the term “isolationism” was a straw man used to misrepresent the position of those who were concerned with this country’s interests. The concept of patriotism was replaced by the term “isolationism” and vanished from public discussion.

The number of distinguished patriotic leaders smeared, silenced, and eliminated by that tag would be hard to compute. Then, by a gradual, imperceptible process, the real purpose of the tag took over: the concept of “concern” was switched into “selfless concern.” The ultimate result was a view of foreign policy which is wrecking the United States to this day: the suicidal view that our foreign policy must be guided, not by considerations of national self-interest, but by concern for the interests and welfare of the world, that is, of all countries except our own." AR, Capitalism the Unknown Ideal. Rand is very clear that you do not willy nilly go into war. Whenever this comes up Danno, I always think it's part Libertarian anarcho subversion of Objectivism. Rand was also very clear about objectives and she was against the draft. I used to think if the draft wasn't in force, it would be hard to pull off a Viet Nam war-but the Iraq/afganistan War happened. too many conservatives see terrorism as a nation instead of a tactic. In the meantime, our educational system supports and props up the very philosophies bent on the US's destruction. sigh

how is economic boycott violence unless you say the US has an economic duty in the first place-which Objectivists would argue strenuously against.

Then Rand talks about using economic blockade and such. That takes big government to do!