Isolationism is a liberal slander that ignores the rich tradition of the Monroe Doctrine and no foreign entangling alliances. Pacifism has no real home on the Right since most American Conservatives support self-defense and are particularly absolutist when it comes to the Second Amendment.
You have no understanding of the Monroe Doctrine.
1. It allowed the US to expand accross this continent. We did so by purchase and conquest.
2. The document implied that the US had sole custody over teh Western Hemisphere. It was an imperialist claim.
3. The guaranteeor of the Monroe Doctrine, was the British Empire, which benefited from keeping France and Spain out of the area. US interest sheilded British imperialism here.
Fight 'wars to end wars,' 'end terrorism,' or 'make the world safe for democracy,' is a twentieth century phenomanon based on, as the author notes, a dumb downed populace.
All true. However, or enemy is not a mode of conflict, but Islamists.
Albright comes from the same line of thinking as Wolfowitz: what is the point of an army if you don't use it. Their cavalier attitude differs only where we deploy the troops first. Neither care either way about the defining issues of American Conservatism (lower taxes, gun rights, anti-abortion) and yet the Wolfowitz/Albright crowd is allowed to set the limits of debate on Iraq. Albright is not an anti-war leftist, she is merely saying we should go slower, hardly even a tinge of ideological difference; strictly supperficial political difference. You calim to be a nationalist and yet keep running with this abstract Western Civilization theme so you lost me, and I suspect you are a party of one. The Monroe Doctrine was the belief that we are in charge in our hemisphere; that is the litmus test I use on whether I support a military adventure or not. Your last line leads me to conclude that you did not read the article or did not understand it. You are in full agreement with the author (an ally); you just differ on policy prescriptions. Your hostility lies most likely in a lack of confidence in your own beliefs. The author suggests, before we go trancing around the world, that we stop letting Islamists into the country who are not only coming in legally but are being flown in with US assistance.