head. That sets the stage for the stubborn isolationism that you see in the 20s and the 30s. One of the things that came to mind while you were talking about Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations, which came after World War I, which is that certainly the experience of fighting two World Wars must have driven some percentage of the country towards being more isolationist. But then I also thought about the Vietnam War and that the reaction to that war was not so much isolationism, but rather an increased levels of pacifism. So how do we think about isolationism as it relates to things like pacifism, like the desire not to engage in foreign wars, but not a desire to pull away from the world? And why did, let's say, the reaction to Vietnam elicit one, but not the other? Well, pacifism was part of the isolationist narrative from the get-go, particularly in New England, where you had a lot of religious communities who did not believe in the use of force. And they opposed the Revolutionary (21/33)
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