wanted to explore. And I decided to do so by going back and trying to tell the story of the American experience through the lens of the isolationist impulse. That's what the book is really meant to do. Well, that was actually going to be my next question or one of my next questions, which was when did you first begin to see signs of a return of isolationist sentiments in the US? And the period for me that was where I saw it was really I put between 2004 and 2007 exactly to your point when the war in Iraq started not going so well or the public opinion began to turn a bit against the war and right up until the surge. And also in the early 90s, I think most notably with the popularity of Papua Canons message, those were kind of the two periods that I remember. But when did you first begin to see signs and what were those signs? I think that the biggest clonk on the head for me was Clinton's reluctance to engage in the Balkans. Also remember that not soon after the Cold War ended, (4/33)
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