isolationist

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Isolationist- Bobby B.

a policy of national isolation by abstention from alliances and other international political and economic relations ||
 * > Name: || Bobby Brunner ||
 * > Word: || Isolationist ||
 * > Source: || //The Savage Wars of Peace// by Max Boot in Empire Emerging on page 61 ||
 * > Appropriate Definition: || noun or adjective
 * > Definition URL: || http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/isolationist?show=0&t=1321039913 ||
 * > Context Sentences: || "That resolution, harking back to admonition of Washington and Jefferson, was now on its last legs. While the U.S. had not exactly been isolationist or even neutral-"It cannot be denied that our presence on the Isthmus was of great value to the government forces", remarked Admiral Jouett- the Cleveland administration had been determined to avoid a long-term entanglement in Panama . In the 1880'2, the U.S. navy was sufficient for chastising errent Koreans or Panamnians, but by Great Power standards it was a joke, ranking twelfth in the world in number of ships, behind Turkey and Sweden, among others". ||

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