Such interventionism distorts competition, protects inefficiency and mocks the very idea of a single European economy by discouraging cross-border investment.
(This pledge was underwritten by Lyndon Johnson in 1965 when he sent U.S. troops into the Dominican Republic to prevent a leftist takeover, but such interventionism only reminded Latin Americans of past "Yankee imperialism" and gave credence to Castro's anti-American propaganda).
Criticising the standard U.S. government claim that such interventionism is for humanitarian purposes, Chomsky maintains that it is an attempt to further the power of U.S. capitalism, with little interest in the welfare of the people involved.
His remarks were made in an essay welcoming a collection of pieces in a Fabian Society pamphlet urging Labour to focus on foreign policy issues such as interventionism, human rights, Russia, and middle east diplomacy from first principles.
(Who, for example, remembers the killing of 15,000 Indonesian civilians by British troops as they restored Dutch colonial rule in 1945?) Even the supposed successes of liberal interventionism, such as Kosovo and Libya, are scarred by escalated death tolls, ethnic cleansing and dysfunctional states.
And though Mr Blair had bolder ideas on foreign policy (such as the liberal interventionism he espoused in his Chicago speech of 1999), they contributed to his downfall.
But in recent years, the West has turned ever more to such notions as humanitarian interventionism while China upholds a policy of absolute noninterference — largely to assure its economic access but also to forestall humanitarian interventionism when it comes to matters like Tibet or China's treatment of its own dissidents.
After leaving office, Johnson founded the non-profit Our America Initiative in 2009, a political advocacy committee seeking to promote policies such as free enterprise, foreign non-interventionism, limited government and privatization.
Neocon politicians and intellectuals who are willing to admit to the existence of a US empire, such as Dinesh D'Souza, often argue that American interventionism is better and purer than old-style, Old World imperialisms, because to a unique degree it strives to make the world a better place.
He did Thatcherite things, such as chairing the Bruges Group that opposed the European Union (though on grounds of interventionism, not the single market) and founding in 1985 a fan-club called No Turning Back.Yet he was not a Thatcherite in his bones.
