Word: expansionist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Russia's top ultranationalist, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, celebrated his 48th birthday in expansionist style...
Many of the problems Clinton perceives today are the same ones that John Kennedy confronted 30 years ago. Clinton doesn't have an expansionist Soviet Union to face, although more than enough tough foreign crises require his careful attention. The real parallel, though, is the economy, which was everything then and is everything now. "What is at stake," Kennedy said, putting matters in their proper perspective at Yale in 1962, "is not some grand warfare of rival ideologies which will sweep the country with passion but the practical management of a modern economy. What we need is not ((party)) labels...
...December the E.C., at its summit meeting in Edinburgh, expressed its outrage at "these acts of unspeakable brutality." So did the U.N. Security Council. The E.C. summit appointed a 12-member team, which found mass rape had been committed "in the context of expansionist strategy" -- that is, ethnic cleansing. The investigators reported that "daughters are often raped in front of parents, mothers in front of children, and wives in front of husbands." David Andrews, a member of the commission, who was at the time Ireland's Foreign Minister, said it was clear that rape had "become an instrument...
...lost because "we fought with one hand tied behind our back." Nonsense. The U.S. used virtually everything it had except nuclear weapons. The U.S. lost because, in sending troops 8,000 miles from home, its government committed three errors: it exaggerated the threat posed by a monolithic, expansionist Red Menace; it overestimated the popular support and staying power of its corrupt ally in Saigon; and it underestimated the inherent advantage a guerrilla force has in fighting on and for its own territory. In short, America was thinking globally and acting locally, but getting it wrong both ways...
...away with seizing Kuwait and that Washington was startled by his decision to embark on this wild course. Both miscalculations were serious failures of U.S. policy: it was a tactical error not to lay down Day-Glo markers around Kuwait and a strategic one to misread Saddam's expansionist goals...