GOP Not Isolationist  Tony Blankley  6/22/2011 12:01:00 AM -
Tony Blankley Sen. John McCain, whose life is a continuing
exemplar of the American heroic ideal, regrettably has got it
quite wrong when he says that growing GOP opposition to the
Libyan and Afghan wars is evidence of isolationism. In his words
on weekend television:  "Well, I was more concerned about what
the candidates in New Hampshire the other night said. This is
isolationism. There's always been an isolation strain in the
Republican Party -- the Pat Buchanan wing of our party. But now
it seems to have moved more center stage, so to speak. ... If we
had not intervened, Gadhafi was at the gates of Benghazi. He
said he was going to go house to house to kill everybody. That's
a city of 700,000 people. What would we be saying now if we had
allowed that to happen?  "...(Ronald Reagan) would be saying:
'That's not the Republican Party of the 20th century and now the
21st century. That is not the Republican Party that has been
willing to stand up for