noninterventionist

noun

A proponent of non-intervention.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

nounnoninterventionist (plural noninterventionists)

plural noninterventionists

  1. A proponent of non-intervention.

    To noninterventionists the Iraq war provides sorrowful evidence of the dangers of exercising American power around the globe.

    2007 June 2, Patricia Cohen, “Proclaiming Liberalism, and What It Now Means”, in The New York Times
    1 more example

    “From the end of the Bush years up through 2013 and ’14, there was a war weariness that was permeating even Republicans,” said David Boaz, author of a new book “The Libertarian Mind.” “However, the videos of ISIS beheading Americans and other people have certainly made it more difficult to stick to a noninterventionist argument.”

    2015 April 8, Stephen Collinson, “Has Rand Paul missed his moment?”, in CNN

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