Word: isolationist
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...while, does it really make sense to have an Office of International Programs that’s housed in privileged University Hall real estate and commands a significant share of administrative and financial attention? An academic community which turns its back to the world is rightly pilloried as isolationist. But one which turns its back on its own countrymen is in perhaps worse straits. North Station might not be as glamorous as Terminal E. But a progressive education is not about glamour...
...Withdrawal simply subjects Iraq to America’s imperial disinterest and will allow far more terrible forces of desolation to overtake its people.Such a clever and evidently capable Democratic candidate can do enormously better on foreign policy, but until he proves otherwise, Obama should be identified as an isolationist and a threat to the many gains in security achieved recently in Iraq. As Obama argues, fighting a war “without end” in Iraq will not necessarily make America a safer place, even if it does forestall some very unpalatable outcomes. However, keeping boots...
...Parallel to the AKP case, Turkey has been gripped by the arrests of an alleged cabal of nationalist ex-army officers, military and civilian militants accused of killings and extortion to uphold what they saw as Turkey's interests. Their views are deeply isolationist and anti-Europe, and they oppose rights for minorities. Turks have long harbored suspicions about the existence of a "deep state," as this network is popularly called. But Feride Cetin, a lawyer for the Turkish Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, who was shot dead last year, considers this the first time specific linkages to elements...
...some ways, Paul is a throwback to the frugal and isolationist wing of the old Republican Party, the fuddy-duddy GOP of Robert Taft and Calvin Coolidge. His fiscal policies evoke the idealistic Republican revolutionaries who seized control of Congress in 1994; he wants to abolish the IRS, the Departments of Homeland Security, Education and Energy, and most of the federal government. He refuses to vote for unbalanced budgets, and he has opposed spending taxpayer dollars on Congressional Medals of Honor, even for Rosa Parks or Pope John Paul II. Typically, his campaign has reported no debts, and still...
...Under Bush's leadership, of course, the Republican Party has been anything but frugal and anything but isolationist. The congressional Republican revolutionaries seemed to lose their zeal for shrinking the federal government once they controlled it, which is one reason voters expelled them from power in 2006. And these days, it's usually Democrats who call for a humbler foreign policy. Paul's leave-us-alone libertarianism hasn't fit in with a party anxious to read our e-mail, improve our values, assert American power abroad and subsidize friendly industries at home. The party's recent mix of "national...