Also, it was not US isolationism which principally empowered Hitler, it was aggressive foreign interventionism carried out against Germany in the form of enormous, multi-billion war reparations levied as punishment for its role in World War I. Check your history books if you don’t believe me. And that’s back when a billion was real money.
When Germany missed payments in 1923, French and Belgian forces occupied the Ruhr, which led to hyperinflation and an economic collapse. Once the German economy finally recovered from that, and later from the crash on Wall Street, a reparations payment schedule was laid out stretching to 1988, as hard as that is to believe.
It wasn’t “isolationism” or “non-interventionism,” but exactly the opposite, which led to the rise of Hitler on the wave of popular support of his pledge to end reparation payments.
Only the abandonment of American isolationism stopped Hitler. Or are you, like the leftists who adore Gorbachev, going to insist that Hitler let himself be defeated for the sake of the world?
Paul wants everyone to believe that the U.S. can, under his leadership, turn back the clock and go back to a foreign policy philosophy that existed before the days of trans-ocean flight, spy satellites, and ICBMs. Sorry, Ronnie -- that moment has passed, and nothing's going to bring it back. Deal with the world as it is, not the way you wish it was.