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Of aid, that is not necessarily a viable position for a serious candidate for presidency, is it. >> right now what hes doing, the tea party which is his base, has pretty strong strand of isolationism in it. that has worked well for him. if he is going to be a serious contender in 2016, he will need expand his messaging on this. im not sure how much he can back pedal on it. >> it should be interesting. thank you. dont go anywhere. well be right back. [ female announcer ] research suggests cell ...

Century. isolationism makes zero sense. no question about it. he needs to win these votes in the congress. and he needs to act in syria to uphold american credibility and the strength and the purpose and to oppose this brutal use of chemical weapons against the syrian people. thats at stake right now. >> you make a great point about the isolationist tone. thank you so much. now we want to tell you about this story because there are democrats out there demanding an apology, reaction to a republ...

>> hezbollah is hoping that isolationism will prevail. north korea is hoping that ambivalence carries the day. they are all listening for our silence. >> reporter: left to make the military case for attacks the chairman of the joint chiefs who had been a skeptic of broad military options. >> i have never been told to change the momentum. i have been told to degrade capability. >> reporter: senators and the administration came face to face with an american public deeply skeptical of another confl...

And look at it through a partisan lens you see consistency in the republican party going back 90 years to the republican partys refusal to ratify the league of nations, the efforts after world war ii of isolationism in the republican party. it is a consistent theme the country has struggled against. we are the leader of the world. this world community was built by the united states after world war ii. it is in our interest to keep it going. and part of that is not allowing the use of chemical we...

People hoping that the united states congress doesnt vote for this very limited request the president has put before you, iran is hoping you look the other way. our inaction would surely give them a permission slip for them to at least misinterpret our intention, if not to put it to the test. hezbollah is hoping that isolationism will prevail. north korea is hoping that a.m. biflance carries the day. they are all listening for our silence. and if we dont answer assad today, we will erode a stand...

>> this is one of the reasons why all of the talk of isolationism is overblown. the guys that dont want to go into syria, theyre not necessarily isolationists, what they are are people that first of all, a, war weary, b, tired of getting involved in the middle east, and c, utterly distrustful of the administration. you can tell how polling is effecting. i listened to most of the hearings today. at one point you had john kerry say were not asking the american people to go to war, said it point bl...

Experience of war delivered the same message, the world is awaiting americas response. >> hezbollah is hoping that isolationism will prevail. north korea is hoping that ambivalence carries the day. they are all listening for our silence. >> reporter: left to make the military case for attacks the chairman of the joint chiefs who had been a skeptic of broad military options. >> i have never been told to change the momentum. i have been told to degrade capability. >> reporter: senators and the adm...

Congress doesnt vote for this very limited request the president has put before you. iran is hoping you look the other way. our enact would surely give them a permission slip for them to at least misinterpret our intention, if not to put it to the test, hezbollah is hoping that isolationism will prevail. north korea is hoping that ambivalence carries the day. theyre all listening for our silence. and if we dont answer assad today, we will erode a standard that has existed for those hundred years...

Review, isolationism is a policy of not participating, right? and foreign events. thats one of the general ways to describe it. would it affect the way the american people truly feel now? its not just a political platform but its the way that americans themselves are feeling at this time. >> and in fact, i think a lot of -- theres a lot of opinion polling that bears that out. henry kissinger said that america goes between periods of overcommitment and periods of isolationism. if you can say the ...

Implications. >> its a question about the republican parity, too, it isn t isnt -- with the rand paul wing thats a kren dant and real talk of isolationism. >> youve already had a strong wing of the republican party. you saw it in the clinton years on kosovo and bosnia. that wing went totally underground in the bush years. theyre a little bit on the sides but most republicans went along with that. what youre seeing is a revival of that anti-interventionist sentiment which rand paul represents. pl...