No. They are not the same thing at all. There is no such thing as an interventionist foreign policy. What would that mean - intervening everywhere all the time? A non-interventionist policy means never intervening ever. We'd all be speaking german.
The US is the blueprint and the bow wave for the globalization process. We will, I hope, continue intervening until we have a world with no war and no poverty. I would, however, agree that we are having to intervene too much alone without enough support from the rest of the core world.
I think you are confusing non intervention with pacifism.
Didn't Hitler intervene? There IS such a thing as interventionist foreign policy.
It IS the present policy of the U.S.A. and has been for years. Viet Nam ring a bell? Does for me.
After the final collapse of the dollar, intervention will be all the USA has left.
I believe any country that spends almost as much on military as the rest of the world combined and has over 700 bases in 130 odd countries can not claim a noninterventionist policy. The United States still occupies Japan, Germany and Korea after how many years?
To advocate a noninterventionist policy is not to adopt pacifism. True defense of a country is an acceptable and desireable thing. However, an economy built on a military industrial system will have unintended consequences. Some of those unintended consequences will be kids shipped home in body bags. All to line the pockets of somebody else. Sad.
McCain was going to ahem "bring freedom" to a foreign land using an interventionist policy while continuing to incarcerate people here for trying to own their own bodies.
Obama apparently is even worse, he's pushing the Afghan war yet wants to limit freedom of choice via forcing gvernment run healthcare on people.
Neither McCain or Obama are consistent with freedom and both are wrong.
To intervene in other people's lives regardless of the scale is wrong and runs contrary to freedom. No country can occupy other countries without being interventionists and garnering resentment
How would you feel if foreign troops were here? Probably the same way many people abroad feel about our occupation of their country.
We are until we own our own bodies, "occupied" here in the USA too, in a virtual Police state. Ever been busted ? It's not much fun and points out the hypocrisy of our system very clearly.
The problems big and small in the world are caused by people who think they can run other people's lives for them and are willing to kill you or steal your liberty to prove it. Peace.
