The Isolationist Temptation | Richard Haass | Wall Street Journal | 5th August 2016

America grapples with its second great foreign-policy debate of the post-Soviet era. The first, from Bush 41 through 43, concerned the appropriate extent of a strong America’s global ambitions. Now the goalposts have moved, and Americans are debating whether their chastened country should give up the global leadership role held since WW2. “Isolationists must not prevail in this new debate over foreign-policy fundamentals — one which I had never imagined would take place in my lifetime”