Word: isolationists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...alarmist article titled "Red Poison Tinges Ivy of Harvard," the infamously isolationist Tribune wrote that the hallowed halls of our nation's first university were "infested with pedagogic termites of communism, socialism, world federalism and other foreign-born schemes that would weaken the American Republic...
...awaken his country from its isolationist slumber, Roosevelt began a long, urgent, eloquent campaign of popular education, warning that unchecked aggression abroad would ultimately endanger the U.S. itself. "Let no one imagine that America will escape, that America may expect mercy," he said. The debate in 1940-41 between isolationists and interventionists was the most passionate political argument of my lifetime. It came to an abrupt end when Japanese bombs fell on Pearl Harbor...
Albright will strongly urge her audience to avoid any isolationist instincts and help the U.S. maintain its commitments abroad...
Maloney did not take his three visitors at face value. He knew from experience that the Ozarks draw many people for reasons other than the appreciation of nature. The area along the Missouri-Arkansas line has been home to privacy seekers ranging from well-armed isolationist groups to prosperous marijuana farmers. Maloney said, "I asked them the question, 'Were they looking for a place to hide,' and they didn't respond to that." The trio left the same day and never came back...
Glennon also informed us that the U.N. charter provides for a supranational police force which would undertake peacekeeping missions. I had always assumed the isolationist fears of an international army that did not operate under U.S. supervision were paranoid fantasies, but I didn't know that such an army was, in fact, the brainchild and fondest hope of those who founded...