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How to use the word isolationism in a Sentence?

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We are thus in the position of having to borrow from Europe to defend Europe, of having to borrow from China and Japan to defend Chinese and Japanese access to Gulf oil, and of having to borrow from Arab emirs, sultans and monarchs to make Iraq safe for democracy. We borrow from the nations we defend so that we may continue to defend them. To question this is an unpardonable heresy called 'isolationism.

Patrick J. Buchanan

added by Normando
4 months ago

Eisenhower became president precisely because he did not trust this version of isolationism in Taft.

Peter Feaver

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think we are going to be fine. I think Kevin gets it is in our national security interest that Putin be defeated in Ukraine. I mean the critics are isolationists about everything. They wanted to get out of Afghanistan. I mean isolationism has been with us forever in both parties.

The California Republican

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You have a growing number in the Republican party aligned with what the President calls 'America first' – what others call isolationism.

Andrew Downs

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Isolationism cannot bring prosperity to a society.

Enrique Pena Nieto

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Isolationism and the belief that one can magically make the asylum issue disappear ... is an illusion.

Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

It’s a perfect storm of isolationism, muscular nationalism, with a dash of pragmatism and realism.

Aaron David Miller

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Withdrawing from NATO would be a catastrophic mistake. It would hand (Russian President Vladimir) Putin a massive victory. It would hand ISIS a massive victory, i think Donald Trump's foreign policy weakness, his isolationism, is frankly to the left of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Neither Obama nor Hillary Clinton advocate withdrawing from NATO.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The situation has changed, the fruits of Obama’s isolationism are now being shown experienced. The beheading of Americans, the collapse of Yemen, giving away everything on the deal with Iran.

Fox News Contributor Charles Krauthammer

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Perfectionism, no less than isolationism or imperialism or power politics, may obstruct the paths to international peace. Let us not forget that the retreat to isolationism a quarter of a century ago was started not by a direct attack against international cooperation but against the alleged imperfections of the peace.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Ultraliberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy, and a pusillanimous pussyfooting on the critical issue of law and order.

Spiro Agnew

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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