Bret Stephens, deputy editorial page editor of the Wall Street Journal, responsible for the paper's international opinion pages, and an editorial board member, speaks with Ben Weingarten of TheBlaze Books on his new book "America in Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder." During the interview, Bret and Ben discuss the history of interventionism versus isolationism, why Stephens sees parallels between President Obama/Henry Wallace and Rand Paul/Robert Taft, the implications of Obama's worldview, how America allowed Russia to become the world's largest nuclear power, defense spending versus welfare spending, the lessons of the Iraq War, Stephens' support for intervention in Syria, the situation in Israel and much more.
