But he a strong American isolationist who thinks we shouldn't be providing any foreign aid anywhere. Right or wrong, that is his opinion.
I imagine that he would likely define ''isolationism'' much differently than the way you're insinuating the term.
Actually, I know for a fact that he would.
As would I.
That's another term that seems to get arbitrarily invoked without ever discussing what it actually means, applicably speaking.
Of all of the attacks on the statesman, I tend to think that one is the most intellectually dishonest of them all, whether purposefully invoked for political effect or just out of pure ignorance alone.
Ron is a non-interventionist.
And, technically speaking, those who make the false charge are historically the true isolationists, but because the difference between isolationism and non-intervention is seldom understood, it just becomes a convenient political catch phrase.
There's a lot of confusion, collectively speaking, about isolationism versus non-intervention. There is a big difference between them.
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