Paleo Retiree writes:
Andrew Bacevich thinks he knows why so many establishment journos consider isolationism such a clear-and-present danger:
Warn about the revival of isolationism and your prospects of making the grade as a pundit or candidate for high office suddenly brighten.
Happy to embrace the “isolationist” label myself.
Blowhard, Esq.
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“The end of World War II found the United States donning the mantle of global leadership … World peace did not ensue. Instead, a host of problems continued to afflict the planet, with isolationists time and again fingered as the culprits impeding their solution.”
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I’ve read a lot of movie bios. It’s always fun to see how the authors deal with the question of isolationism, particularly where the America First movement is concerned. Usually, there’s a fair bit of tsk-tsk’ing. Sometimes the author just tries to get through that bit really quickly. Because if you didn’t support getting involved in WWII, you were obviously a Nazi.
Also funny to realize how many Hollywood types were isolationist, conservative, etc. I remember a Lillian Gish quote about her distaste for FDR (or was it Wilson?). Something like: “I didn’t like him because he cared about foreign people more than he cared about Americans.”
Reading the Joseph McBride Ford bio now. No problems there: Ford was a standard-issue lefty, albeit with some quirks.
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Funny how some people think that minding your own business is an evil act. Bill Kauffman’s “America First!” is a pretty great rehabilitation of that group. An amazing number of respectable Americans were members, and hated the idea of getting involved in yet another European war.
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I’ve long believed that the U.S. needs to close down the foreign bases and bring the troops home. Has to be done incrementally and carefully. Roll back the military to a peacetime standing, too.
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