Word: foreign
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Cheney's announcement was greeted by much of the U.S. foreign policy establishment with cynicism. The Defense Secretary, it was said, had not really had a change of heart; the cuts had more to do with the requirements of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings deficit-reduction law than with the opportunities posed by Gorbachev. True, but beside the point. What mattered to the Soviets was that the U.S. body politic as a whole now accepted the proposition that Kremlin policy had changed in ways that justified American reciprocation...
...Foreign policy will be the most obvious point of conservative contention in a post-Communist world. How long will we be in favor of maintaining garrisons in West Germany, South Korea and points between once the garrisons on the other side become unthreatening? Irving Kristol and Tom Bethell have been urging for years that the U.S. wind down NATO. The tradition of American noninterventionism is a long one (we like pedigrees for our prejudices). America should not "go abroad in search of monsters to destroy," as John Quincy Adams put it. "She is the well-wisher to the freedom...
...most important foreign policy issue, after bringing the boys home, will be keeping the Japanese out. Anxiety over foreign imports has recently been a theme of Democrats like Richard Gephardt. But before he came along, the same worries were being expounded by John Connally. There is no such thing as a presidential primary in South Carolina without a protectionist pitch to the local textile industry. When the Fourth Reich joins the Yellow Peril as an economic bogeyman, squabbling on the right between free traders and protectionists is bound to increase...
...them now? One plausible hypothesis assumes that a demand for the rockets was created by the current rebel offensive. Another is that both Ortega and Castro are rushing to help the F.M.L.N. before Gorbachev pressures them to cut off the rebels as part of his larger rapprochement with Washington. Foreign diplomats, confirming a report in the French daily Le Monde, said that a Soviet emissary told Sandinista and Cuban officials in Managua last week to stop arming the F.M.L.N. Salvadoran diplomats closed their Managua embassy on Wednesday and left the country in protest over the SA-7 shipments. But they...
...think it is against our standards of accountability to make a charge against a foreign government without checking all the facts first," Meselson said...