“Era Of Isolationalism” Is a Deception Of Mass Schooling
The U.S. was a worldwide military power before the Civil War and a worldwide maritime power while it was still a colony. There was no Era of Isolationism (“No Entangling Alliances”) except in the hopes of Thomas Paine and in the foot-in-the-mouth of Thomas Jefferson. Walter Russell Mead (Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How…