Not Naming Names, Laura Bush Denounces Trump-Style 'To Hell with the Rest of the World' Isolationism - People Magazine‎

Former First Lady Laura Bush, returning to Washington, D.C., to promote her new book on the continuing struggle of women in Afghanistan, made a strong denunciation Tuesday of the "xenophobic" talk going around among some Americans these days. 

Careful not to name GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump, whose anti-Muslim rhetoric and isolationist trade and foreign-policy policies have been dubbed xenophobic by some, Bush said at a luncheon panel discussion sponsored by Politico: "We go through these periods where we're xenophobic and we're just going to stay home and … to hell with the rest of the world. We might be going through a little bit of that right now but that's not a smart policy. And it certainly is not the policy of everyone in the United States." 

Holding two fingers about an inch apart, she added, "Our world is about this big now and what happens in other places does matter." 

Twice, the force behind We Are Afghan Women: Voices of Hope, published at her instigation by the George W. Bush Institute, commended President Obama for his decision to prolong the presence of U.S. troops in Afghanistan in order to give that country's democracy – and its long-persecuted women – a better shot at long-term stability.Read More at the People Magazine‎

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