and were seen as the fringe elements who made the big mistake of keeping the United States behind a moat, fortress America, while fascism and militarism and virulent nationalism and Nazism were sweeping Europe and Asia. And I agree with that. I think that the isolationism of the 1930s was a deluded bout of a search for strategic immunity that led to a disaster, the bloodiest, most costly war in the history of the world in which 400,000 Americans lost their lives. And I mean, it was a big mistake for the United States not to engage earlier. That having been said, I think if you go back to the 19th century, you see a brand of isolationism which served the country well. And the isolationist in calls goes right back to the founding days. And the guiding advice came from President George Washington in his farewell address of 1796 in which he said, the great rule of conduct for us is to have commercial relations with everybody and entangling alliances with no one. And for the rest of the (9/33)
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