Doug's non-rhetorical WITBD?, as Re: Is ...

Max Sawicky sawicky at bellatlantic.net
Wed Oct 10 05:05:50 PDT 2001


mbs: I wouldn't bank on isolationism. It was a plausible approach before 911, but after being attacked few isolationists would fail to transform into raving internationalists of the unilateral variety.

mbs

A large number of Americans, who are instinctively isolationists, would likely come to approve of the proposals to cut off all aid to Israel, discontinue the blockade of Iraq, and remove all troops from the rest of the world, if leftists worked patiently & persistently. The majority of Americans tend to support dropping bombs & lobbing missiles as long as doing so entails few American casualties, but that doesn't mean that they are liberal internationalists. They are conservative in the old-fashioned sense. Yoshie



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