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...trade. The imposition of heavy tariffs on steel imports announced this week runs counter to his usual free trade stance—and is a mistake. The trade barrier, which levies an import tax of up to 30 percent, is reminiscent of the protectionism of America’s isolationist age just before the Great Depression, and it marks a regression in this nation’s attempt to form a new, open global economy. While economists and academics in the United States proclaim the benefits of free trade, the Bush administration has cast aside their views in order...
...society when transformative events take place, like the end of the Cold War. What do we do when the Cold War ends? The question I was always wrestling with was an interesting one: were we a monopoly superpower that was, in the events before Sept. 11, a de facto isolationist country? In finance and business we weren’t, but were we in other areas? And I thought that the political system and the media, most particularly television, showed that we were. That’s what I was really trying to get at. That was the question...
...foreign allies would object if Bush withheld the technology from them, for the fight against terrorism is an international campaign, and we shouldn’t be the only ones to have such advanced protection. The international press would surely brand him, once again, as an “isolationist.” And, of course, their point would be well taken. Would Bush be able to mitigate these concerns by transferring anti-missile system components to Japan, incooperation with the emergent Navy Theater-Wide program? Would he be able to use our innovations to upgrade Israel?...
...Helms has been more than happy to fight on issues he?s committed to. He has outraged critics by using his position to rail against "indecent" art, gays and lesbians and civil rights in general. He has enraged the Senate?s growing pro-globalization caucus by maintaining an unapologetically isolationist attitude. Most recently he galled abortion rights supporters by blocking payment of U.S. dues to the UN as a protest against funds sent to women?s health providers that, Helms argued, were ostensibly used for abortion education or the procedure itself...
...retreat where he is formally articulating his policies. Despite his tub-thumping election campaign he has not actually said what he stands for?aside from his vague blandishments about technology and the future. In his first few months in office he sent conflicting foreign-policy signals, telegraphing an isolationist message at an April conference in Bangkok where he said Thailand would reduce dependence on exports and look inward to solve its economic woes; then seeming to backtrack at the May FORTUNE Global Forum in Hong Kong where he pledged to keep Thailand's economy open. Now he insists...