'Isolationism!' They cried: mainstream journalists misunderstand conservatives (big surprise).(FOREIGN POLICY)

From: National Review | Date: April 10, 2006| Author: Goldberg, Jonah | Copyright information

IT was a typical New York Times article. Among the themes: Iraq is a disaster; it's the neocons' fault; the GOP is flirting once more with its dark addiction to "isolationism"; proof that George W. Bush is growing in office can be found in his realization that Bill Clinton's policies were right; and so on. There was only one problem with the page-one story by David E. Sanger titled "A Bush Alarm: Shun Isolation": It was a pile of nonsense.

According to Sanger, Bush has b...

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