Word: isolationist
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...Governor Bush joined with the isolationist, partisan Republican majority in Congress in opposing the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty," Gore said. "He chose politics over principle...
...People attacked him for things like his position on women and the Holocaust about which he deserves to be picked on," she said. "But they are in the past. Things like his strict isolationist and economic policies are just as scary but were overshadowed by his sensationalist issues...
...junior member, and he remains governor of the Carinthia province. Nor has his political viability waned; immediately after she ascended to the role of party head, Freedom party cabinet member Susanne Riess-Passer said she wished Haider hadn't stepped down. And in announcing the move, Haider continued his isolationist rhetoric, saying "I don't accept international pressure. We are accustomed to making our own decisions...
...nationwide - a popularity fueled by Austrian resentment over the E.U.'s shunning of Vienna. So while Haider may fade into the background in the short run - he said he will concentrate full-time on being governor of Carinthia - E.U. leaders will do well to note that his right-wing isolationist policies are still in high demand...
...makes sense that no candidate, in this day and age, would want the label of "isolationist." But Republicans have fallen a long way since Ronald Reagan's reign, when intervention was at least employed as a means to a worthy end--the destruction of the Soviet Union. Today, Republicans endorse crusade after crusade, each time undertaking a newly permanent international commitment that results in more, rather than less, human suffering. Republicans have been intoxicated by a new internationalist machismo that offers one final claim to greatness by the leaders of the post-Cold War era. But eleven years after...