Glad to see this. “Isolationist’ seems to be the new perjorative for folks who think the saber-rattling is a bit too much. We’re in good company - the Pope evidently also falls into that category.
My thinking is more along the lines of, ‘The Emperor Has No Clothes’ or perhaps “The Boy Who Cried Wolf!”
Not new, Wilson used it in the debate that he lost in 1918 to 1920 to insult the defenders of an unfettered American sovereignty--those of us who understood that you can not make a habit of poking your nose into other people's domestic concerns, without inviting the internationalists in other countries--Communists, etc.--from poking their nose into yours.
Of course, nothing in the defense of our sovereignty, and the concept of the traditional nation, prevents us from responding to insult, as suggested in my post immediately above. It was not wrong for us to go after the Terrorists in 2001, for example; but we lost our way in following a flawed methodology, that ended up helping the committed enemy to recruit a huge stream of new blood. (Just look at the proliferation of fanatic enemies in the last few years, with Al Qaeda playing an open role in the Syrian civil war, as an immediate example.)
William Flax