1.0 link 14872 <![CDATA[Misstatement of the Union: That Bush's Critics are Isolationists]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/suzanne-nossel/misstatement-of-the-union_b_14872.html Bush referred a half-dozen times tonight to the dangers of an American retreat to isolationism. He's adopting a strategy of trying to paint his critics as favoring a retreat to inward-looking policies and a renunciation of America's role in the world.

This is pure hogwash:

- Bush's Critics are Overwhelmingly Internationalists, Not Isolationists - As Charles Krauthammer wrote in 2004: " Isolationism is an important school of thought historically, but not today. . . Classical isolationism is not just intellectually obsolete;...

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