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No, people are subconsciously isolationist. It isn't something people other than some Libertarians or one-issue voters/candidates are actively conscious of. Interventionism is a fear-driven reaction to protect our own lifestyles and make them easier... with a complete disregard for the cost to other states/races/ethnicities. That very disregard is the prime mark of a modern isolationist. The same person might be willing to donate that nine cents for the 'orphans of Africa', but they will frequently also support military intervention to destroy threats to their lifestyle... and be rabidly anti-whateveristheenemyofthemoment most of the time. Before our involvement in WWII, American isolationism took the form of a complete disregard for the circumstances of other nations - even allies - as long as we profited... does that really sound any different from today? The only difference is that we transformed from passive isolationism to active isolationism. We realized that if we just sat there doing nothing, someone would raid the gold pile or try to slap our hands off their gold pile, so quite naturally we deployed spies, security guards (garrisons in other nations), etc. to protect the interests we previously thought could be protected through self-interested neutrality. In exchange for self-interested neutrality, we have self-interested interventionism to keep the dirtiness on other people's lands. The only problem with this - from an American's point of view - is that that same policy of interventionism is supported and justified by the 'world's police' role that America has taken on (though current politics are moving against it, domestically), thus costing us money we really would rather spend elsewhere. Early on, the interventionist policy paid economic dividends, but it is rapidly becoming a dead weight on the economy. Edit: Ah, incidentally I won't be keeping this conversation alive... I hadn't intended to talk politics and human nature in this blog, and it isn't really suitable overall.

Just think: if you took all the time you spent Internet posting about the inadequacies of the English VN market, you too could be playing VNs in Japanese--10 years later!