Word: isolationists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Furthermore, to compare current military expenditures to the period before World War II is not entirely honest. Before World War II, we were an isolationist country whose total ground forces numbered less than 300,000. We relied on Great Britain and France, the "Great Powers," to keep the military balance in Europe. Even BSG admits they cannot do this alone today. The military needs of such an isolationist foreign policy cannot be compared with the needs of a global power--even a limited one as BSG advocates. Mark F. Cancian...
Sabbagh said isolationist forces in the country were attempting to withdraw Lebanon from the conflict with Zionism...
...Congress. I was a man of the Congress and I was proud of the fact. But by 1973 I had concluded that Congress had become cumbersome, undisciplined, isolationist, fiscally irresponsible, overly vulnerable to pressures from organized minorities and too dominated by the media...
Crimson: You have been said to be very isolationist regarding the artist's relation to politics--that is, denying any common meeting ground between art and politics...
This is a fine and even courageous proposal, especially in light of the isolationist and xenophobic feelings that seem to dominate public opinion, and it is one that should have been advocated and enacted long ago. It would enable people who have lived here, married here and built homes here to cease worrying about being impersonally torn from lives years in the making...