noninterventionist

English

Etymology

From non- +‎ interventionist.

Noun

noninterventionist (plural noninterventionists)

  1. A proponent of non-intervention.
    • 2007 June 2, Patricia Cohen, “Proclaiming Liberalism, and What It Now Means”, in The New York Times‎[1]:
      To noninterventionists the Iraq war provides sorrowful evidence of the dangers of exercising American power around the globe.
    • 2015 April 8, Stephen Collinson, “Has Rand Paul missed his moment?”, in CNN‎[2]:
      “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.”

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