In this part of his conversation with Jacob Heilbrunn, Michael Mandelbaum examines America’s long tradition of opposition to war. He argues that every major US conflict has provoked dissent and prefers the term “non-interventionism” to “isolationism.” Americans never sought to withdraw from the world, but long resisted entanglement in European politics. Mandelbaum also explains that this caution reflected US weakness—and that today’s skepticism toward Europe draws on an older American tradition.
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