All you who think that isolationism can't mean what you yourselves think, should examine the period before World War II when Spain raged with Civil War with one side aided by nazis and the other side aided by communists, when Hitler began to grab land and build up his army, when Italy marched into Ethiopia with modern weapons against bows and arrows, and when Russia fought with Finland, and when Japan marched into China and throughout the Pacific.
American public opinion did not want to get involved. All arm sales were cash and carry.
Then look at the CP plank. They want to cut off not only gifts of arms but also gifts of food and water and medicine and clothing to people like those hit by the hurricanes in the Carribean. They also want arm sales to be cash and carry. And they do not want American troops fighting in wars overseas.
There is no attempt to smear. But all of you who say that issolation has a bad stink to it are correct. One just cannot see the difference between Peroutka's plank and the 1930s isolation that was sobered only by the expansion of Germany and Japan and Italy. England ran out of cash and ran out of means to carry home arm sales. If FDR had waited any longer, England would have run out of soldiers. After Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, "a day that will live in infamy," all Americans united in rejecting what was left of isolationist thinking. The older generation may have passed from sight, but almost no Americans disagree with their ending isolation for all time and leading America into the role of the world's only super-power. Now we have to focus that power against the Islamofascist terrorists in order to protect civilization from the new Huns.
We can fight the terrorists on Satan's territory of ancient Babylon or we can return home and wait for the mushroom cloud over the USA and then begin the fight in the 50 states in our schools and theatres and railway stations like in Europe or in our sidewalk cafes and hotels like in Israel.
Peroutka is wrong. Peroutka should be rejected and his party disbanded.
Bush is correct! This is war, total war!
The slogan of World War II for homeland people faced with shortages was:
Use it up; make it do; or do without.