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FWIW, I think it's important to correct the isolationist bit largely for the same reasons I think it's important a true history of America be taught - it's kind of part of the fake mythology and propaganda that has been built up and taught as thought it was true when it very much wasn't, the same kind of flavor as the "The Civil War was about states' rights not slavery!" bullshit.

Hell, pretty sure all my textbooks back through K-12 stated basically what you asserted there - that America was isolationist because of the Monroe Doctrine - and it retreated even further after WWI with its rejection of Wilson's foreign policy... and like... that's not right at all. It acts like Europe was the entire rest of the world (which tells on the author's intent IMO - like Kenri said, racism) and ignores that America, at best, simply didn't want to get involved in Europe's entanglements but was all too eager to conduct imperialism and genocide in the Western Hemisphere and its "isolationism" was telling the European powers only we could do that from now on.

I mean, I think a lot of this propagandized history is far too deeply entrenched to be rooted out of schools unfortunately but I do think it's important we correct it where we can even if it's as a sidebar in this topic.