The United States is the world's best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her power for good and endanger her very existence. Leave her to march freely through the centuries to come as in the years that have gone.
—Speech excerpt, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Washington D. C, 1919
The excerpt suggests that Henry Cabot Lodge disagreed with joining the League of Nations because he believed it would cause the United States to become too
A.
powerful in global politics.
B.
involved in foreign affairs.
C.
isolated from foreign activity.
D.
disconnected from global wars.