“Into this vacuum of power [in Asia and Africa] we have allowed ourselves to be sucked. … We have become grossly overextended in regions where we have no primary vital interest. . . . We have not had sufficient time, money or energy left to take care of our true vital interests nearer home. . . . Our security and well-being are not involved in Southeast Asia or in Korea. . . .
“If it is said that this is isolationism, I would say yes. It is isolationism if the study of our own vital interests and a realization of the limitations of our own power is isolationism. It is isolationism as compared with the globalism which became fashionable after the Second World War.”
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