Word: imperialist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moral foreign policy" about as useful as old "Whip Inflation Now" buttons, but it tends to have serious backlash effects. When people in Tehran, Managua, and elsewhere see their neighbors gunned down by government troops using American tanks and M-16s, they often view the United States as an imperialist power supporting non-democratic regimes, not at all the image we try to portray to the nations of the Third World. While in some cases the U.S. may have to provide arms as a deterrent to Soviet expansion--to the NATO countries, for example--it is a dangerous expedient...
...decision fails once again to connect trade with foreign policy aims. As long as the U.S. continues to sell planes, tanks, and guns to any government that feels--or imagines that it feels--the hot breath of Soviet pursuit, it runs the risk of being seen as a warmongering imperialist. With the production of a fighter plane strictly for export, we step blatantly into the role of "agent of destruction," not "defender of the free world...
...meekly lined up behind Moscow. The most vociferous defense of Soviet actions came from Marchais. Interviewed on French television after his return from a six-day visit to Moscow, Marchais described Soviet troops in Afghanistan as peaceful forces" and the invasion as a "totally legitimate intervention" to counter "imperialist threats." Asked about the Italian and Spanish Communist condemnation, he answered tartly: "You still haven't understood that my name is Marchais, that his is Berlinguer and that the other's is Carrillo...
...seen in the West as Soviet intervention in the Third World through surrogates. The Soviets' invasion of Afghanistan with their own troops abruptly changed the situation and challenged Fidel Castro's claim to leadership of the Third World. In the United Nations, nonaligned states attacked the Soviet imperialist thrust, while Cuba's representative lamely endorsed the Soviet action without specifically mentioning Afghanistan. The invasion killed Cuba's chances of winning a much desired seat on the Security Council...
...there was far less unanimity. Although the Eastern European satellite regimes generally acquiesced as supinely as ever, both Yugoslavia and Albania protested the invasion. French Communist Leader Georges Marchais, who once pretended to independence from Moscow, echoed Brezhnev in saying that the Soviets had acted only to resist an imperialist threat, but Spain's more wayward Communists criticized the Soviet move. The Italian Communists were more rebellious. In a resolution introduced before the European Parliament in Strasbourg, Italian Communist deputies declared the invasion "an open violation of the principles of national independence and sovereignty." The Italians' goal...