Word: wilsonian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Vietnam was conceived as a Wilsonian venture. However wrong yesterday's hawks were in many respects, they were right that communism spelled ruin and misery for the peoples of Southeast Asia...
Americans may have left the remnants of their Wilsonian idealism years ago, somewhere north of the Mekong Delta. They are certainly no longer driven by a desire to "pay any price, bear any burden," as John Kennedy said, to ensure the liberties of others around the world. In a way, the crisis in the gulf brings together a fortuitously crass coincidence of American idealism and materialism; Americans look to punish the aggressor and protect their energy supplies at the same time...