died, hundreds of thousands of Filipinos died. That's when you begin to see a strong pacifist movement that digs in right up interwar period. And one of the factors that led to the defeat of the League of Nations as we were talking about is this unusual alliance between the pacifist left and the libertarian right. Interesting that we're beginning to see that kind of coalition come back today, but we can get to that later. In regard to the Vietnam War, there was a pacifist movement and there also was a stepping away, but I wouldn't call it isolationism, I would call it retrenchment. Richard Nixon put forth what was called the Guam Doctrine, which was, we will let our partners abroad do the fighting for themselves. And that led to the Vietnamization of the war and the US essentially ending the fighting. But I think it's safe to say that after the Cold War, isolationists were never really able to get a foothold. There was a push at the end of the 1950s because of the Korean War, because (23/33)
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