ABSTRACT
The historian Isaac Deutscher once pointed out that a nation’s foreign policy must always be seen as continuous with its domestic policy, and not as a separate entity as often assumed. Such a view has not in the past found favor in the USA, perhaps with reason. Those who are conservative on social and economic issues at home may oppose intervention abroad (e.g. former presidential candidate Patrick Buchanan), while self-described liberals may be more ambivalent. Labor support for US intervention abroad and the question of Palestine are other issues that divide liberals and the left in matters of US policy abroad.
