Word: expansionist
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...them into art. It therefore does a valuable service, even in the banal aesthetic quality of much of the work in it -- those earnest efforts of small, provincial talents whose work would not be worth studying except for the clarity with which it enshrines the obsessive themes of an expansionist America...
...really capable of knowing and understanding." Consequently, national interest is all that we really capable of pursuing. And "national interest" requires a limited interpretation. The Communist presence in Vietnam did not constitute a national security crisis that justified U.S. intervention. And the Nicaraguan Sandinistas were not an expansionist national security threat that neccessitated hundreds of millions of dollars in United States aid to the Contra rebels...
...have an expansionist dictator and he has to be held in check," says pro-war student Lyle J. Goldstein...
...only remaining justification for immediate war in the Gulf is that a bloody defeat for Hussein would establish peace in the Middle East by deterring future aggression from other expansionist-minded leaders. But such deterrence would only work if other leaders were convinced that the same kind of military action would happen again in the same way: universal world condemnation, a universal approval of force and then a U.S.-led attack...
Furthermore, other Southeast Asian nations were alarmed by Vietnam's 1979 invasion and feared further expansionist action. Thailand, Laos, Burma and others took a strong stand against Vietnams's action, and supported the rebel coalition, which includes the Khmer Rouge...