Word: isolationist
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...governor with little stated interest in foreign affairs won the presidency, gloom settled over many corners of the Continent. ?Nothing suggests (he) believes the problems of the planet are as serious as those of his country,? Le Monde sighed. ?We are facing an American Administration that will be more isolationist than its predecessor...
...That isolationist was Bill Clinton, who by the end of his second term was feted throughout the Continent for his abiding engagement in Europe. Now, as the presidency of George W. Bush begins, Europeans are worried again. During last year?s presidential campaign, Bush and his advisers stunned European leaders with suggestions that they intended to pull American troops out of the Balkans, abrogate the Antiballistic Missile Treaty and in general act more unilaterally than any U.S. Administration since the beginning of the cold war. Members of the Bush team have since labored to calm European jitters, but nothing...
...American involvement end with dinners and ladybugs. Kennedy hated the idea of the U.S. being drawn into the looming European catastrophe. His patriotism was genuine but isolationist and, in the Kennedy way, tribal. Eventually, of course, he came home from London in something like disgrace, dismissed as an appeaser and defeatist...
...major candidates have sharply differing perspectives regarding America's involvement in world affairs. Vice President Al Gore '69 espouses a vision of America as a vocal and active member of the community of nations. Texas Gov. George W. Bush has taken a much more isolationist approach, saying that the U.S. must only intervene in outside affairs when it is in America's direct national interest...
Bush generally takes a relatively isolationist stance, questioning the need to maintain peacekeeping forces in Bosnia or allocate funds overseas to address global concerns...