by Patrick J. Buchanan – November 22, 1999
The Cato Institute – Washington, DC

Last month, the Senate rejected the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. The U.S. nuclear arsenal that had deterred Stalin’s empire, the Senate said, must be regularly tested for reliability and to reduce the destructive power of these awesome and awful weapons.

The Senate was right. But to an enraged President, this was a vindictive vote to rob him of a legacy. He lashed out. The Senate, Mr. Clinton said, has embraced a “new isolationism” that seeks to “bury our heads in the sand behind a wall.” A 4000-word tirade against the “New Isolationism” by Samuel Berger quickly followed.