[Thane_Banquo]

Isolationism has never served the interests of America

... Except, you know, for those first hundred years or so...

[1rudeboy]

... Except, you know, for those first hundred years or so...

Yeah, I miss those days. No electricity, or running water . . . and if you need to get somewhere you rode a horse.

[wideawake]

America was not isolationist for its first century.

Isolationism is a very bad idea.

Randomly bombing Syria without any plan or any consensus is also a very bad idea.

We should not respond to foolish interventionism with advocacy for foolish isolationism.

[cuban leaf]

I wonder what would have happened if the US had never entered WWI?

WWII we HAD to enter, since both Germany and Japan declared war on the US.

Regarding Syria, “isolationist” does not apply. This is a civil war. It really is NONE of our business. The moral outrage on the TYPES of weapons used to kill people is so cute. It is also laughable.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Isolationism nearly elected a President and blew up the two-party system. If the guy had not turned out to be a complete raving loon.

Don’t underestimate this country’s thirst for isolationism.

[ek_hornbeck]

I much prefer the foreign policy legacy of Robert Taft (not to mention that of Coolidge and Hoover) over that of Woodrow Wilson and FDR. The Wall Street Journal disagrees, yet it claims to speak for “conservatism.”