“ That war [Bosnian war] in the early 1990s changed a lot for me. I never thought I would see, in Europe, a full-dress reprise of internment camps, the mass murder of civilians, the reinstiutution of to… Christopher Hitchens
“ I have been taunted on various platforms recently for becoming a neo-conservative, and have been the object of some fascinating web-site and blog stuff, from the isolationist Right as well as from the… Christopher Hitchens
“ It's all very well for us to sit here in the west with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's immoral to violate the sovereignty of another state. But if the effect of that is to bring people… Niall Ferguson
“ America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. John Quincy Adams
“ Tewler Americanus in particular was irritated by a harsh logic that overrode his dearest belief in his practical isolation, whenever he chose to withdraw himself, from the affairs of the rest of the w… H.G. Wells
“ If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it. Stephen Colbert
“ I respect those who say that the United States should simply withdraw from the Middle East, but I don't respect them for anything but their honesty. Christopher Hitchens
“ Others saw in the trend still another instance of a disturbing tendency in the American suburb: the longing for withdrawal, for self-enclosure, for expensive isolation. Steven Millhauser
“ In 2015, when I went back to the States or to an international conference, I found that people didn’t much care anymore. They saw the Middle East awash in blood, beyond redemption, and didn’t want to… Richard Engel
“ You can't build a wall round a village.The sun and the windwill always find their way in. Igor Goldkind
“ It seems a lot of Christians are quick to condemn the world and write its inhabitants off as lost causes. It’s odd, though, Jesus never did. He healed and lovingly confronted. Jesus engaged and walked… Katherine J Walden
