Word: isolationists
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...Nazi armies overran Europe. "But the whole concept of the real atrocities and the things now that history so vividly records weren't driven home every single day to America," he says. "You've got to remember that in the end of the '30s there was kind of an isolationist fervor in some quarters. People saying, 'Hey, that's not any of our business.' There's a parallel there for what some feel about the Persian Gulf today: let somebody else figure this out. And it's my view that nobody can, except the United States...
...that the Japanese style of long-term planning will help bring stability to Hollywood. "That's very important to creative people," he says. By the same token, he feels that Americans will grow more comfortable with such global alliances. "It's crystal clear that we are no longer an isolationist country...
What accounts for this sudden sprouting of caution on the right? Partly it is a return to isolationist tendencies that go back to the earliest days of the Republic. In 1796 George Washington warned against the dangers of entangling alliances: "The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible." Over the centuries, the desire to retreat from a global role has ebbed and flowed, and in the 1930s Congress even passed neutrality laws in the hope of preventing the U.S. from...
...agree with a great deal of what he says. But even where I share Solzhenitsyn's general thesis, I often find troubling the peremptory nature of his judgments, the absence of nuance and his lack of tolerance for the opinions of others. He displays a marked anti-Western and isolationist bias, at times lapsing into an exaggerated Russian nationalism...
...that the rest of the world has an impact on our daily lives. Internationalization is more an attitude than a store of information about geographical facts or a language ability. Although knowledge of different cultures is intellectually stimulating, and our exposure to these societies helps us understand them, our isolationist attitude is too strong to be changed by these kinds of information alone...