Talk:United States isolationism

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The role played by British subversion within the United States in ending U.S. neutrality in World War II should not be underestimated. See Desperate Deception: British Covert Operations in the United States 1939-44 by Thomas E. Mahl. Read reviews at http://www.dcdave.com/article3/001116.html, http://www.fff.org/freedom/1198f.asp, and http://www.thornwalker.com/ditch/mahl.htm.

Here is an excerpt from the third review above:

Mahl evaluates British intelligence activities in the United States as "one of the most important and successful covert operations of history." (p. 186) What is most astounding, however, is not the British activity but the collaboration by the Roosevelt administration. For while Britain was simply pursuing her perceived national interest, Roosevelt's cooperation with the intelligence service of a foreign state could certainly be labeled as treasonous. A current theme of the Establishment media is that what made Nixon's Watergate activity so heinous, in contrast to the alleged sexual peccadillo of President Clinton's perjury and cover-up, was its intent to illegally alter the political process. However, whatever political impact the Nixon administration intended as a result of the Watergate break-in would seem to pale in comparison to Roosevelt's effective manipulation of the political process, with the support of the British government, to bring the United States into a world war. For such an egregious violation of the democratic will and the laws of the country, Franklin Roosevelt deserved not simply impeachment but imprisonment...

Once again, in our time, many Americans are consciously working on behalf of a foreign country. And those supporters, who include actual Israeli agents, are deeply embedded in all parts of the American power structure. In fact, the role of pro-Zionists is more overt than that of the Anglophiles in the World War II period. An analysis of this current phenomenon would provide an invaluable service to those concerned about protecting the real security of the United States and its people. But the pro-Zionist interest is so powerful and so pervasive in American society that one cannot safely point out its existence - meaning that a Mahl-like analysis will not be undertaken in the foreseeable future.