It sounds like a realist. And now it's calling people like Richard Perle, Dick Lugar, John McCain, James Schlesinger and Henry Kissinger isolationists. Washington is full of ironies, but this has to be one of the more delectable ones. Because with each word lost, devalued, and twisted beyond recognition, our political discourse deteriorates. Until we find ourselves doing nothing but shouting meaningless epithets at one another.
Isolationist is only the latest example.
Look what's happened to the word Liberal, which once meant something. Now it's been reduced to little more than a handy epithet. For the same reason we should insist on meaning in politics, not just loose labels.