Word: isolationist
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...Paris between two schools of economic policy within the Socialist Party: the moderate, internationalist "Europeans" and the leftist, often nationalistic "Albanians," as they were nicknamed derisively by their opponents, who accuse them of wanting to cut France off from the rest of the world, like Communist-ruled, isolationist Albania. The moderates argued that France must stay in the European Monetary System (E.M.S.), which requires every member to maintain the value of its currency within a narrow range against the others, even at the cost of domestic sacrifice. The "Albanians" urged Mitterrand to bolt the E.M.S. and resort to protectionism...
...mission to strengthen the Western alliance. Said he: "I know there are some who question the value of the alliance, who view it as cumbersome and at times unresponsive to the need for action. And there are those people still, in our land, who yearn for the isolationist shell. But because we've rejected those other courses back over the recent decades, there has been peace for almost 40 years on the Western front...
...allow countries in the Western Hemisphere like El Salvador and Honduras to fall under Communist control. Viet Nam or not, the U.S. cannot play the isolationist role when the turmoil is in its own backyard...
...against" the war-a phony question. Nixon was determined to end our involvement, and in fact did so. What he refused to do was to doom to a bloody Communist tyranny millions who had relied upon us. He believed that abject failure would vindicate neo-isolationist trends at home. He was convinced that an America so weakened would dishearten allies and embolden adversaries. And he was proved right. The collapse in 1975 not only led to genocidal horrors in Indochina, but from Angola to Iran to Afghanistan it ushered in a period of American humiliation, an unprecedented Soviet geopolitical offensive...
...anchor of the whole non-Communist world," he said nearly in despair, "and because of righteous indignation this anchor is slithering in the mud." His fear was that in 1976 a new President would see his election as vindication of the antiwar, neo-isolationist position. This must not happen: "My survival depends on it," he said...