Word: isolationist
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...waxed and waned, as have the world's expectations of America. But conditions are such that it is again necessary to ask what U.S. relations with other nations ought to be and what they can be. The President is only intermittently engaged in foreign affairs. Congress is increasingly isolationist and at the same time assertive. The public is bored by international issues. Yet at the same time, America is poised to send troops to help a distant people. Beyond that, U.S. involvement abroad grows inexorably as its foreign trade booms and free-market democracy becomes the world's dominant ideology...
...reorganization plan for the State Department, so Helms retaliated by refusing for months to confirm 18 ambassadors. Meanwhile, START II, the chemical-weapons convention, nine bilateral investment treaties and other pacts are also languishing. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott says Congress is "flirting with ideas that are isolationist in their potential consequence if not in their actual intent. There's a resurgence of the view that we can now afford to go it alone." This is hardly a platform from which Clinton, flush from his Bosnia success--if it comes--can launch a new internationalism...
...circumstances, and with the right justification, they will respond to a call for foreign involvement. Robert Zoellick, Under Secretary of State in the Bush Administration, calls it "show-me internationalism." Voters, he says, "want each case demonstrated on its own terms why the U.S. should engage. They're not isolationist, but they need to be focused...
...deal with the problem the U.S. faces today, it must accept a lesson that runs against the isolationist grain: alliances are essential. A task as big as, say, aligning China or Russia toward free markets, responsive government and strategic self-restraint will take consistent diplomacy from many countries working together for at least a generation. Building and managing an alliance to last that long will call for leadership more patient and forward thinking than the U.S. has commonly provided. But other countries are eager for it--though they may not always admit as much. "The U.S. is and should remain...
...Specter campaign booth was directly opposite that of Pat Buchanan, both in physical and spiritual presence. That is, Buchanan's exclusionary, didactic, isolationist, reactionary vision of America holds almost no parallels to Specter's moderate and reasonable conservatism. Yet Buchanan Deputy Campaign Manager Timothy J. Haley holds his opponent in esteem. "Specter is one of those candidates who truly believes something." Haley said at the conference, dismissing Dole, Gramm and Wilson as mere political operators...