Bacevich's take on the NYT's obsession about the threat of a 'new' isolationism

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It's a bit dated (Oct 2013), but I finally come around to recommend Bacevich's lengthy blog text in which he documented one piece of the American puzzle of interventionism:

Always and Everywhere: The New York Times
and the Enduring “Threat” of Isolationism

By Andrew Bacevich

All too often you win the argument by setting the narrative. And the really good manipulators quell even the tiniest deviations from their course effectively with entrenched narratives and appeal to emotions.

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