Word: strongarm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Coupled with frequently insensitive U.S. political actions abroad, this corporate presence prompts many foreigners to see this country as a strongarm of self-interest, rather than a stronghold of liberty. And the powerlessness engendered among. Third World countries--and, in fact, even out Western allies--by this ponderous. American influence breeds the sort of desperation on which terrorism thrives...
...many, such ends are not ill-advised. Besides, if the Administration should press allies like El Salvador and Guatemala to improve human rights conditions, as some contend--why shouldn't it strongarm Israel? Such an analogy overlooks the fact that Israel is a democracy, unlike those Latin American countries where outside pressure is the only possible influence on a dictator. For all its weaknesses, the Jewish state must decide on its own what course to follow; if Israelis have had enough of Lebanon, the territories and Begin, they have the internal procedures to say so and act on their will...