From a philosophical perspective, I want to fight off isolationism and protectionism, be it part of another voice out there that says, wait a minute, what matters to women in Afghanistan matters to America. An isolationist point of view says it doesn't matter. The articulation of "all life matters" helps frame the case that it does matter what happens to a woman in Afghanistan.
Gov. Christie says 'New Jersey First. ' State-based Isolationism!
We in America have learned bitter lessons from two world wars: It is better to be here [in Europe] ready to protect the peace, than to take blind shelter across the sea, rushing to respond only after freedom is lost. We've learned that isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable response to tyrannical governments with an expansionist intent.
Isolationism is over.
Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.
[Alex Haley] objective was to illustrate that the racial separatism of the N. O. I. was a kind of pathological or a kind of - it was the logical culmination of separatism and racial isolationism and exclusion.
Interventionism is inextricable from the American idea. If the United States retreats into isolationism, it ceases to be itself ? a nation dedicated, however much it falls short, to a universalist ideal of freedom.
One must not allow oneself to skid down to isolationism and unbridled economic egoism. . . . The second possible mistake would be excessive interference into the economic life of the country. And the absolute faith into the all-mightiness of the state.
