Word: isolationist
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What gives meaning to this ludicrous oratory in the Vatican is Richard Nixon's deepening obsession to re-justify the global pastorate of the United States in the wake of Vietnam disengagement. Nixon is a dedicated internationalist trying to accommodate the isolationist impulse spreading in his own country-especially among the young, whose entire political lives have been lived out with Vietnam as the overriding issue. They sense the hollowness of an "internationalist" foreign policy which confuses that word with military intervention in every country of the free world. The new isolation, then, has chiefly a negative content: it simply...
...foreign policy, the President reflected, has long been "provincial rather than global. They talk about neoisolationism. That's not new. We've always been isolationist. The role we have is not a role we would have preferred. The Marshall Plan and other acts of help were reactions to problems rather than calculated moves in a master plan of world dominance like those devised in other generations by Germany and France. The Peace Corps touched the heartstrings of America." But more than idealism is needed. The U.S. must make certain that other nations have the chance to develop...
Idaho's Republican Senator William Borah, an avowed isolationist: "He is almost an ideal Senator, with no desire to put forward constructive ideas, but always anxious so to frame his utterances that he will afterwards be able to prove that he was right and everyone else was wrong...
Both Beard and Williams rejected the label "isolationist." First of all. The Tragedy persuasively argued that in the so-called "isolationist" 1920's American interests and commitments were world-wide: by uniltateral action (such as the official Dawes and Young loans to the faltering German economy) we sought to buttress free trade throughout the world. Secondly, the kind of reorientation Beard and Williams advocated would not inherently isolate the United States from the world. With less proclivity to intervene in the interests of a world market system, we might feel more inclined to act vigorously out of unselfish interest...
...this in the streets and at the polls, let us in the sanctuary not minimize or disparage the moral ground on which our government has taken its stand. It is hard to repent if your policy is based on the compassionate abandonment of the maxims of an isolationist fortress American. It is hard to repent if your policy is based on the scrutiny of historic experience and on the resolution not to permit the armed crossing of the Czechoslovakian or any other international frontier through acquiescence, umbrella in hand, in any Munich Pact, however disguised...