Word: militarist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Knowing the nature of many opponents of the libertarian-militarist tradition (that's a more accurate label. I think, than "conservative.") I could imagine a comment like "Conservatives Suck" or "RcaGan is a Dick...
While wary of the Soviets, who have 52 divisions on their northern border, the Chinese made it clear that they wanted a neutral role with the superpowers. (The Soviet news agency TASS was apparently unconvinced; it rapped the Chinese for condoning Reagan's "militarist course.") Reagan did his best to draw the Chinese closer, while acknowledging that he did not expect the "friendship" between the two countries to blossom into an "alliance." Chinese Communists are more to his liking than Soviet ones, Reagan said, because they are not "expansionist" and are willing to experiment with capitalism...
...moment, no group represents everyone who supports a democratic, non-militarist and non-expansionist University. But unity can be achieved. The strike steering committee set up by students who initially supported SDS's six demands was designed to be expanded, and the six demands can be added to and clarified. Students who find themselves for the most part in agreement with this group's demands should, as the strike proceeds, attend and participate in the meetings of the radical strike group. These are not SDS meetings, but simply meetings of people who support the radical demands...
...counter the widespread fear that he is a hard-line militarist who is increasing the risk of war, Reagan sounded a line he will repeat frequently: because his military buildup has strengthened the nation, "we can now move with confidence to seize the opportunities for peace." He adroitly addressed an appeal for renewal of arms-control negotiations "to the people of the Soviet Union," telling them "there is only one sane policy, for your country and mine, to preserve our civilization ... the only value in our two nations possessing nuclear weapons is to make sure they will never be used...
...massacre are also costing Israel dearly in its relationship with Egypt. Last week Cairo's prestigious newspaper al Ahram called for an international tribunal "on the lines of Nuremberg" to investigate the massacre, while the mass-circulation al Akbar declared that the incident had demonstrated that Israel is "militarist, fascist and terrorist." Along the same line, Egypt's Defense Minister, Abdel Halim Abu Ghazala, called on Arab countries to develop a "joint strategy" in order to offset Israel's increasing military superiority. It was quite a departure from the spirit of Camp David...