Isolationism sixty-five years ago meant failing to stand up to the nazis, being 'neutral', with a nod and a wink to overseas friends of Lindbergh, the America Firsters, the Bund
What Bush is isolating from the rest of the world is power, the ability to make life and death international decisions for the species, walling all this up into a few back rooms of Washington, thusly isolating the US, for the moment, from the march of human progress ... so your meaning does come across, still it will be mildly confusing to use for this the term 'isolationism', given an entirely different meaning so few decades ago ... opens it up to semantic quibbling ... you need a new term, neocon pretty much sums it up ... how about PNACenturions ... or hispanicise it, pinaquistas, pinaquismo, pináculo being already 'pinnacle' or 'peak', so it's like, 'the peak of arrogance/hubris' .... culo means 'arse', there's that too, maybe you could rip off pináculo whole from the hispanos, who are unlikely to mind ... stay teutonic of course - PeeNACul |
