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...years before the beginning of World War II, Taylor actively supported an interventionist group, and in 1942 he rejoined the Army as a captain in military intelligence. (World War I had ended before he could leave training camp...
...Link. As the current foreign-policy debate progresses, it may seem odd that liberals-so strongly interventionist before World War II and so strongly internationalist after World War II-talk about American "self-interest" in a manner that in some quarters now means "isolationism." Yet this is only a reversion to form. With the exception of the 1930s, when distaste for the Nazis and sympathy for the Soviet Union made interventionists of the liberals, they have usually been against heavy foreign commitments...
Further, he favors the earliest possible "liberation" of the satellite countries and supports a tough policy aimed at ousting Castro from Cuba: To fear that U.S. interventionist policies would harm our international standing is "patently ridiculous...If this so-called world opinion were worth courting, it certainly would not countenance Communism with its history of violence, slavery, and oppression...
...Both the Cromwellian and French revolutions were corrupted by utopian illusions and the confusion of contradictory visions of social perfection. Abraham Lincoln was dogged by the absolutistic demands of Horace Greeley, William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips, and he had more genuine charity than all of them. In the interventionist controversy preceding World War II we were confronted by a frequently noxious combination of nationalistic and perfectionist isolationism, trying to persuade the nation to remain pure by remaining irresponsible ...Some of the soberness of Catholic social theory certainly derives from its exclusion from the political realm of the yearning...
There were severe and undeniable dam ages. The U.S., for all its sincere talk and offers of bountiful aid, had put on the black mantle of the interventionist and had lost itself many amigos in sensitive Latin America. It shocked others by appearing weak in the face of a small Caribbean dictator and appalled everyone by being both indiscreet and ineffective. "If that is the kind of assistance we may expect in our fight with Communism," said a Peruvian journalist, "then it's high time we stopped being anti-Communist...