Word: isolationist
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...seemingly endless recession. Bush's Tokyo foray, in which the enduring -- and symbolic -- image was of the American President collapsing into the lap of the Japanese Prime Minister, intensified American feelings of anger and humiliation. Pat Buchanan, whose New Hampshire stump speech includes numerous nods to his isolationist "America First" economic platform, fans the flames. "We're on a wave of Japan bashing that is much more serious than in previous years," concludes I.M. Destler, a visiting fellow at the Institute for International Economics in Washington...
GEORGE BUSH versus Pat Buchanan. The latest polls (by the American Research Group, a New Hampshire firm) show the isolationist and "probably" anti-Semitic (William F. Buckley's conclusion--not mine, which would have been something like "Goebbelsesque") Patrick J. Buchanan to have broken the 30 percent mark...
While Buchanan is by far the most extreme neo-isolationist to declare his candidacy, other versions of that creed are erupting all along the political spectrum. The redefinition of U.S. priorities and interests in the post-cold war world is a subject that cries out for cool debate. But what the country has been handed in the slow-starting presidential campaign is mostly warm mush...
...Bush's slowness in taking steps to combat it, have left him open to the charge that his attention begins at the ocean's edge. The President betrayed his worries about such attacks last week when he responded to Buchanan's charges, "We must not pull back into some isolationist sphere, listening to this sirens' call of America first." Protectionism, Bush said, will only "shrink markets and throw people out of work...
Even if Buchanan's underfinanced campaign flops early, Democrats will continue to bash Bush for his preoccupation with foreign affairs. Well before the plunge in Bush's poll ratings lured Buchanan into the race, some Democrats were honing variations on isolationist and protectionist themes. Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder came to New Hampshire in August to tout what he calls a "Put-America-First Initiative." He echoes Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, who has stridently attacked Bush for his foreign travels, lambasted the free-trade treaty that the Administration is negotiating with Mexico and carped about foreign aid. While insisting that...