No culture can be considered less interventionist than the monastic culture of the Middle Ages. Certainly the monks of Lindisfarne on the East Coast of England had no idea in 793 that they were about to be devastated by a new technology: the Viking Longboat. With these revolutionary shallow draft boats the Vikings were able to cross perilous seas, navigate up rivers and descend on unsuspecting monasteries to sack and pillage.
In 1945 the Japanese thought they might still win the war through sacrifice of their population by ten of their own to every American soldier who might invade. They were undone by a new technology, the atomic bomb.
All the suppositions, all the realities, all of the assumptions were instantly obliterated in a single blast. Today the world is confronted with the possibility not just of atomic attack but of hydrogen attack delivered by ICBM missiles from the other side of the world or from under the sea. Nearly as frightening, biological weapons could wipe out entire civilizations.
The Vikings, the Japanese, and, more recently, Islamicists were not amenable to negotiation or reason, they waged war according to their own lights. The isolation of the monks did not protect them, the insularity of the Japanese availed them nothing, appeasement of militant Islam is sure to fail. Isolationism simply does not work especially when a new technology or a new ideology transforms everything.
To support Donald Trump because he voices some libertarian views is to substitute wishful thinking for clear thinking. The odds are that Donald Trump could not even define libertarianism; his conception of foreign policy is inconsistent, incoherent, and ignorant.
On twitter I’ve noticed a lot of Libertarians beginning to defend Trump... over the last six weeks. Many are saying they are not planning to vote for him, but they take to twitter to lambaste the left. Justin Raimondo from antiwar is one of them... it started to shift once Trump began speaking out against the Bush wars and his critique of NATO sealed the deal.
Trump has a lot of unlikely support... I’ve mentioned before, that every single cab driver anyone in my family has used since January without being prompted has used Trump lines... we’ve counted 30 so far, and this is in blue Maryland, NYC and DC. All the cab drivers have been foreign born people of color, and one black American woman. Yesterday an Ethiopian cabbie stated that all the Ethiopians he knows are supporting Trump... Make America Great again blah blah blah. Cab drivers are the first people to feel the brunt of a crumbling economy, and in a sense even if they’re working for a company... they’re small business owners who rely on customers who have enough money to decide to use the convenience of a cab.