Farmers cannot sell their products to people who would buy them if they had the chance. Consumers must pay higher prices for gas and heating oil. The world is a more hostile place without trade, and angry terrorist strike out in the belief that they are retaliating against us. To make matters worse, bills in Congress propose sanctions be imposed on another 23 countries, for reasons that appear plausible at first. Burma violates human rights.
China does too.
Colombia permits drug trafficking. Iran backs terrorism. So does Syria. Zaire persecutes political dissidents. For the most part, they cause regimes to hunker down and point their fingers at the U.S. for domestic problems of their own creation.