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Tomorrow, the World

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Officials entered his administration determined to maintain a “preponderance of power” under the control of the United States. That objective would lead them to construe the Soviet Union as a threat and wage the Cold War in response. — location: 78 ^ref-45569

Like all myths, it is produced, and reproduced, to serve a purpose. If an isolationist United States caused two world wars to break out, then the opposite posture, the deployment of U.S. power across the globe, seems necessary. — location: 125 ^ref-20509

armed dominance begins to look profoundly moral if it is regarded as the defining feature of internationalism. — location: 127 ^ref-2604

isolationism performed a function that no other concept could. It made any limitation on force seem to imply total disengagement from the world. — location: 140 ^ref-9184

Yet it took the most improbable of events—the German military’s rapid and absolute victory over its superior French counterpart—for the United States to contemplate and pursue global supremacy, — location: 3882 ^ref-37498

The bugaboo of isolationism, and the equation of internationalism with armed supremacy, stifled political debate from 1945 onward. — location: 3926 ^ref-12311

so long as the phantom of isolationism is held to be the most grievous sin, all is permitted. — location: 3982 ^ref-46833

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