Word: interventionists
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...authors claim that "by condemning international efforts to counter Saddam Hussein's atrocities, these groups have effectively alienated and silenced the voice of the majority in the Arab world." However, mass demonstrations all over the Middle East clearly indicate the strong popular Arab opposition to U.S. interventionist policies in the region and to U.S. support of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, southern Lebanon and the Syrian Golan Heights...
...were five countries in the world with a higher per capita Gross Domestic Product--the best indicator of national prosperity--than the U.S. Four of those countries, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and West Germany, are, in varying degrees, social democracies. The fifth, Japan, succeeds because it has the sort of interventionist industrial policy that conservatives loathe...
...Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina lambasted the Administration's timidity, deriding Bush's entourage as the "Keystone Kops" and denouncing a "total lack of planning." More surprising were the Democrats who lined up to criticize the Administration's caution: in the past, many of them had espoused anti-interventionist sentiments in Nicaragua and toward the Navy escorts of Kuwaiti oil tankers during the Iran-Iraq war. Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts called the episode "a black mark on our diplomacy and our values." Congressman Les Aspin of Wisconsin declared, "We should go in and capture Noriega." Aspin differentiated between...
...Panama, where civilian opponents of the regime are noticeably more pro- interventionist than their neighbors in the region, there was also considerable grumbling. "The U.S. is like a dog that barks a lot but bites not at all," said opposition leader Ricardo Arias Calderon. On Thursday, Noriega ordered a crackdown to weed out traitors. That night, P.D.F. troops attacked the opposition headquarters and hauled away several people, including Endara. The opposition leader was later released and at week's end was holed up inside the Vatican embassy...
...fast industrializing economies of Asia. The opening up of Western Europe's protected national markets will hurt inefficient firms, but the hope is that enough competitive winners will emerge to ensure that Western Europe has its champions in the 1990s and beyond. West European governments are curbing their interventionist instincts and freeing businesses to make profits. Even when a socialist government was returned to power in France last year, it conceded the benefits of free enterprise by pledging not to renationalize the enterprises that its conservative predecessors had shifted to private control...