Word: isolationists
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...Gleeful Republicans across the country mocked their opponents as isolationist "Defeat-ocrats," as Mehlman put it, and even some Democratic officials said they can already imagine the ads in November races saying that Lieberman, once within a few hundred votes of being Vice President of the United States, is now "not liberal enough" for the Democratic Party. Republican officials, who have had little but bad news for months as Iraq festered and U.S. voters showed increasing signs of pessimism and discontent, said the Lamont victory gave them a chance to paint Democrats as a party that had become captive...
...that after 1909, the U.S. took a bit of a breather in world affairs, retreating to the side of the stage as the European crisis unfolded. But it never stopped building warships. And the country would be summoned back to the center of international politics in 1917. Despite the isolationist pressures of the interwar years, the U.S. would never be able, or willing, to abandon its pivotal role. The country's later trajectory would have made T.R. feel justified, and proud. He had always been convinced that it was impossible for the U.S. to avoid becoming the greatest world power...
...were suffering from the same affliction, most people in the U.S. would see no problem with helping the U.S. citizen first. This reaction comes from the stereotypical “American” practicing his own brand of patriotism but is also present in the most progressive circles. This isolationist sentiment fails to recognize that—in this age of globalization—countries need to look beyond their borders to solve problems within their borders. With a global economy it is impossible to isolate the U.S. in a utopian bubble of prosperity, and the mass migration...
...Bush's closed meeting with Fox, a senior Administration official says, the U.S. President told the Mexican one that there is an "unsettling" undercurrent of isolationist and protectionist attitudes in the U.S. "It's an emotional issue," Bush told Fox but predicted, "I think we will get something" out of Congress on immigration. The two talked nuts and bolts of legislative strategy, with Bush saying the plan is to get a comprehensive immigration bill from the Senate, then add some of those elements to the House's security bill when the two versions reach a conference committee. A White House...
...will only be able to tell whether the Iraq war was worth it in probably 20 years. I believe in time it will grudgingly be thought of as worth it. Was the Vietnam war worth it. Yes, in the long run it was. Vietnam, especially North Vietnam, was an isolationist nation, not wanting to be part of the greater world. That war forced it to open up. Today, Vietnam is one of America's best associates, in trade and travel. That war led to America opening up to China. Wars, history has shown, have facilitated and consolidated the world...