“Rand Paul is Isolationist”
If he is, then that term has no meaning. It’s sorta like how if you want to slow tge rate of gubmint growth, or God forbid actually cut gubmint spending, progressives will accuse you of vein an anarchist or turning the clock back to the 19th century. Or, on our side to be fair, when we accuse people who have gotten used to the Welfare State as it is of being communists. Fascists, maybe, though that term has been corrupted beyond use. This is all gross exaggeration.
By the way, I happened recently to read a few excerpts from Carroll Quigly’s “Tragedy and Hope,” which offers a glimpse at the inner workings of the Anglo-American Establishment cabal, tge banking and other sorts of super-rich family dynasties, you know, the Fed, the CFR, Bilderbergs, etc. Anyway, one of his favorite epithets is “neo-isolationist,” along with “petite bourgeois.” They were especially guilty for having backed Goldwater.
That should give you good context for Kristol’s comments.
Not sure I’d want to read a book that heavily influenced Bill Clinton’s thinking.
If I want conspiracy to entertain myself, I just go right to Oliver Stone’s JFK.
Rand Paul is quite isolationist. He is to the Left of Obama on the war on terror.