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1/2: #GOP: Isolationism and the Republican Party since Henry Cabot Lodge and Teddy Roosevelt. John Bolton, NRO

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🗓️ 7 January 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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1/2: #GOP: Isolationism and the Republican Party since Henry Cabot Lodge and Teddy Roosevelt. John Bolton, NRO
https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2023/01/23/containing-isolationism/

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0:00.0

Quiz question for you. Of the 20-hour to London boroughs, how many do you think meet

0:05.6

the World Health Organization's safe limit for toxic air pollution? How many do you think?

0:11.8

Go on, say a number out loud. None of them. That's why the U-Lets is expanding across

0:19.2

all London boroughs. Search U-Lets 2023 to see if you're affected and if you are eligible

0:25.4

for funding to help replace your vehicle. Let's clear the air.

0:32.4

This is CBS I of the World. Here's John Batchler.

0:39.4

American Foreign Policy and the word isolationism. I welcome John Bolton, former ambassador to

0:46.7

the United Nations, former National Security Advisor, writing most recently at the National

0:51.3

Review Online about American foreign policy since the beginning, since George Washington,

0:56.9

but also the word isolationism that was created in the 20th century as a disputatious point

1:04.2

that here in the 21st century is now entertained again by some members of the grand old party.

1:12.6

What is to be done? John, a very good evening to you. I want to establish, as you do in

1:16.9

your essay, that the US has always been engaged in the world. There was never an isolationist

1:22.2

moment in the late 18th century with George Washington and John Adams. The quasi war

1:27.8

comes to mind, something we all had to memorize in grade school. And then we come to the 19th

1:33.6

century from Louisiana purchase until the Spanish-American War. Engage, engage, engage,

1:39.2

engage. Was isolationism a debating point in the 19th century, John, up to Roosevelt? Good

1:44.2

evening to you.

1:45.2

Good evening. No, it really wasn't. And I thought it was important in this piece in National

1:50.8

Review to write even if only at Calvin Coolidge length, why the idea that America was just sitting

1:59.2

for over a century quietly, knitting by the fire, protected by two broad oceans and uninterested

2:07.3

in the affairs of the world, because it dominates the view both of the left who think that our

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