America can’t be isolationist in today’s world

America can’t be isolationist in today’s world

When Armstrong Williams writes in his column “What would Founding Fathers think of Trump’s foreign policy?” that Russia “fears American encirclement,” he ignores the observation by George F. Kennan, “the father of containment”: “The jealous and intolerant eye of the Kremlin can distinguish, in the end, only vassals and enemies; and the neighbors of Russia, if they do not wish to be the one, must reconcile themselves to being the other.” Gary Sau…