John, the second para of your story says:

"This was a very dangerous thing to say. But we live in dangerous times."

No, it wasn't dangerous of Freedland, just childish. The United States has not left the world, and anyone who thinks so, or says so, doesn't understand that the world order is changing and that Trump is calling out what many of us have been able to see for years, "the Emperor has no clothes". 

It's high-time that the world got "sorted" without having a global war to do it. Be not afraid Chicken Little, the sky is not falling.

Her statement smacks like what the sounds must have been when the British Empire changed. "The end is nigh, doom and gloom!. Wasn't to be the case, we still worship today at the feet of the British. All her statement says, is its reflective of a generation who have never had to make sacrifices to achieve something better. So typical of the Sunny Days/Sunny Ways Government.