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Before the advent of modern weaponry, one of the central tenets of the isolationist catechism was that America's status as a continental nation, flanked by two great oceans, gave us the luxury of doing without all the treaties and alliances that countries such as France or Great Britain had to bother with.
Isolationist pundits give the impression that the world outside the United States is a boiling cauldron of centuries-old ethnic rivalries, in which mass slaughters are everyday occurrences.
The Independent ran an article jointly authored by Professor Harald Muller, director of the Peace Research Institute in Frankfurt, Germany, and William Walker, professor of international relations at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, who said the vote was "deplorable" and reflected a situation in which "American policy is increasingly being shaped by people with isolationist, or, even worse, a supremacist agenda.
Imagine if the United States had adopted this isolationist policy during World War II.
As Buchanan notes, the term "isolationist" (which he rejects) was coined in the 1920s to denigrate those who would keep America out of European wars.