Word: isolationist
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...best players can compete on baseball's premier stage. Japanese players who move to the majors are no longer seen as leaving Japan behind; they are seen as representing their country in the international game. It's a sign that the globalization of sport is finally penetrating this often isolationist country, that many fans here would rather watch an international game with the top players in the world than settle for a lessened domestic product. As one Japanese baseball blog put it: "Finally, all the dream matches will come true in 2007. Matsuzaka vs. Godzilla Matsui, Matsuzaka vs. Genius Ichiro...
...quoted in Bethell’s book. And a 1939 poll reported in The Crimson reported that 95 percent of undergraduates opposed immediate US entrance into the War. Although some would dispute the poll’s validity due to The Crimson’s purported isolationist bias, the campus was consumed by a debate global in nature.As the threat of Japanese or German attack grew, so did student support for American intervention. Conant saw more success in turning student opinion as Britain and France came under duress. After France’s fall and the tremendous allied losses...
...show for it. Neocons claim that the Iraq war would have been successful if executed more competently, but nation-building—particularly in the Middle East—is a tall order regardless of leadership. I don’t mean to imply that Republicans should become completely isolationist, but a corrective shift in that direction would be appropriate. On a related note, Republicans should take greater care to reconcile support for intelligence and defense operations with a respect for civil liberties, the fundamental guarantors of limited government...
Foreign Cultures is a requirement? Henry Cabot Lodge, noted isolationist and member of the Class of 1871, would not be thrilled. “Harvard students are learning about foreigners?” he would yell, waving his cane, pocketwatch flailing about. “At America’s premier institution of higher learning? Balderdash!” Lodge would then lurch off, muttering under his breath.Luckily, Harvard’s isolationism has dissipated since those quaint pre-World War II days–as of a couple years ago, they even started encouraging us to study abroad...
...good and honest people on the other side of the political divide, it is a shame," he said. "It is also a sign of what the Democratic Party has become in the 21st century. ... The Democratic Party has chosen to nominate for Senate a leading proponent of the isolationist, defeatist, blame-America-first philosophy...