Word: interventionist
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...with respect to their own heads of state is one that held unlimited appeal for him. And his sympathies lay not so much with the Castlereaghs who sallied forth from their island paradises when they found their interests threatened as with the statesmen who were naturally inclined to activist, interventionist roles-men like Metternich, who defended impotent Austria and finally commanded European peacemaking through the devious use of offers, deals, and threats...
...military: McGovern opposed the ABM and MIRV programs. He has blasted the Nixon defense budget as offering "no respite from the costly interventionist policies of previous administrations. It does not reflect at all the much heralded 'winding down' of the Indochina war. It seeks the same objectives and hopes in vain that they can be achieved with fewer American lives and more American money." He advocated that the $75 billion defense budget be cut by at least $20 billion...
...often slapped on in primary colors, and can come close to caricature. In fact, the Administration in its first year evolved through a series of policies that were in many ways ideologically inconsistent. A gesture toward the conservative (the Haynsworth nomination, for example) would be countered by an interventionist policy (such as the Philadelphia Plan). The President embodies both an instinctive conservatism and an intellectual reformism...
...interesting thing about your editorial "End the War: Support the NLF" is that it is not anti-war or anti-interventionist...
...This neo-interventionist position is a familiar one for Americans. U.S. support of Saigon students and dissident Buddhists who wanted to overthrow Diem in 1963, made the U.S. responsible for a series of weak successor regimes and drew the U.S. further and further into this damned morass. The inglorious arguments that you despise, i.e. that this war is too costly and not in America's interest, would have had us out of Vietnam...