SEEMS TO BE A BRAND NEW MOVEMENT IN WASHINGTON...

[elduderino]

its called neo-isolationism...


Amen!

[10digits]

1. ??????????

You might explain. WTF?

[lcordero]

2. and I hope that it catches on

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. The last time we tried total isolationism

there was a big war waging, and they dragged us into it, kicking and screaming. Burying your head in the sand won't make the charging rhinos disappear.

[lcordero]

4. "internationalization" in US terms is

backing dictators <--- this is true even under FDR
wiping out the indigenous people of a particular country
seizing foreign natural resources

[el_gato]

5. united fruit company

[Aidoneus]

6. when was there isolationism?

certainly not in the time of or between either "world war". Maybe right at the start of the new post-British state up until maybe the 1840s, but I suspect that was more due to technology and development..

[The Backlash Cometh]

7. Oh dear.

Here's a reference:

"Isolationism A policy of not participating in or withdrawing from international affairs, especially as practised by US governments during the first half of the 20th century.

The American attitude was not to get involved in the messy politics of the old colonial powers of Europe and to avoid being drawn into conflicts, particularly World Wars I and II.

The US policy of isolationism was put under severe strain in 1915 when a German U-boat sank the British liner Lusitania, which was carrying a substantial number of American citizens. Yet President Woodrow Wilson later found it difficult to overcome the unwillingness of many American politicians to participate in the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. He then found it impossible to persuade the Americans to take part in the League of Nations."

http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/guide20/part02.html