Word: isolationists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ross Perot, who at this point seems unlikely to be elected, would have to wait until January to wrestle with a Congress in which he has few supporters. However, Perot seems most apt to adopt an isolationist stance, since the movement to elect him is largely based on populist values...
...diary, the young man confided that he had come "to the decision that Facism ((sic)) is the thing for Germany and Italy, Communism for Russia and Democracy for America and England." But when he ran for President in 1960, John F. Kennedy never had to explain that isolationist view. Nor would raising the issue have made much sense, because the mature Kennedy had long since outgrown the jottings of his impressionable youth...
...full page of The New York Times last week, Gates blasted the "demagogues and pseudo-scholars" who he said preach anti-Semitism. He singled out a new book by Nation of Islam researchers, The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, Vol. 1, as "the Bible" of a new isolationist movement...
...about it. After he's in office, he declared in an interview with TIME, "we will review the entire range of U.S.-Philippine relations. The rejection of the bases treaty may have given the wrong signals to our neighbors, including the U.S. and Japan, that we have become isolationist, but that's not correct...
...second premise of America First--that in order to protect national interests America must turn isolationist and withdraw from foreign affairs--is dangerously naive. Domestic and foreign affairs are far from mutually exclusive domains. With a global economy, common environmental problems and thousands of nuclear weapons, decisions we make abroad are very likely to affect our lives at home...