As with practically all rhetorical devices, William Shakespeare liked using it (âShe being none of your flesh and blood, your flesh and blood has not offended the kingâ), but you can thank George Lucas for what is now probably the best-known example: âFear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate.
isolationism. the policy or doctrine directed toward the isolation of a country from the affairs of other nations by a deliberate abstention from political, military, and economic agreements. â isolationist, n.
President Woodrow Wilson's interventionist sentiments were strongly influenced by his mentor, Colonel Edward Mandell House. The case for noninterventionism: the term isolationist is slung like a curse in today's conservative circles at those who don't want America to police the world.