Isolationism Quote of the Day

Author: Carl Wicklander
Published: 30 Aug, 2012
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Updated: 13 Oct, 2022●
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"In the last year, the U.S. has helped orchestrate the overthrow of the Libyan government, it is funneling some aid to Syrian insurgents, and it has been selling massive amounts of weapons to Gulf Arab monarchs. If that is 'isolationism,' I would agree that nothing good is likely to come of it."
- The American Conservative blogger Daniel Larison on Victor Davis Hanson's column stating "nothing good comes from American isolationism."
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