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I respect those who say that the United States should simply withdraw from the Middle East, but I don't respect them for anything but their honesty.
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Tewler Americanus in particular was irritated by a harsh logic that overrode his dearest belief in his practical isolation, whenever he chose to withdraw himself, from the affairs of the rest of the world. He had escaped from the old world and he hated to feel that he was being drawn back to share a common destiny with the rest of mankind.
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americans
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We isolated ourselves, because it hurt less.
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isolationism
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Jodi Picoult |
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I have been taunted on various platforms recently for becoming a neo-conservative, and have been the object of some fascinating web-site and blog stuff, from the isolationist Right as well as from the peaceniks, who both argue in a semi-literate way that neo-conservativism is Trotskyism and 'permanent revolution' reborn. Sometimes, you have to comb an overt anti-Semitism out of this propaganda before you can even read it straight. And I can guarantee you that none of these characters has any idea at all of what the theory of 'permanent revolution' originally meant.
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politics
blogosphere
isolationism
peace-movement
permanent-revolution
right-wing-politics
trotskyism
us-non-interventionism
war-on-terror
iraq-war
neoconservatism
propaganda
internet
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Christopher Hitchens |