Word: interventionist
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...million awarded to Rodney King by a Los Angeles jury last week is not the first multimillion-dollar sum the city has had to pay to compensate for the actions of its occasionally too interventionist police force...
Such behavior may seem surprising coming from Clinton, who campaigned as a foreign-policy idealist. As a candidate, he took a hard line on human rights, attacking George Bush's passive policies in China, Haiti and Bosnia. Voters expected to see a more interventionist foreign policy, where Clinton would use resources freed up by the end of the Cold War in the aggressive pursuit of humanitarian goals...
Clinton roared into office on a wave of idealism. With communism's collapse, he reasoned, America could freely indulge its passion for promoting democracy and protecting human rights. The President was quickly labeled the archetypal New Interventionist, and promising forceful action became a staple of his statements. The cost of such promises became clear in Bosnia, Somalia and Haiti. Clinton's retreat from all three has accommodated the public's revulsion at risking American lives without an obvious national interest on the line. When humanitarian interventions require force, the President has learned, there is safety in indifference...
Candidate Clinton promised to be a New Democrat, free from the statist left wing of the party. But President Clinton, with the notable exception of NAFTA, has opted to fight the free market and pursue an interventionist economic agenda...
...situation in North Korea is a perfect example of why active engagement with the rest of the world is imperative. It also proves that engagement can be a workable policy, neither aggressively interventionist nor stubbornly isolationist...