Word: expansionist
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...lost because "we fought with one hand tied behind our back." Nonsense. The U.S. used virtually everything it had except nuclear weapons. The U.S. lost because, in sending troops 8,000 miles from home, its government committed three errors: it exaggerated the threat posed by a monolithic, expansionist Red Menace; it overestimated the popular support and staying power of its corrupt ally in Saigon; and it underestimated the inherent advantage a guerrilla force has in fighting on and for its own territory. In short, America was thinking globally and acting locally, but getting it wrong both ways...
...away with seizing Kuwait and that Washington was startled by his decision to embark on this wild course. Both miscalculations were serious failures of U.S. policy: it was a tactical error not to lay down Day-Glo markers around Kuwait and a strategic one to misread Saddam's expansionist goals...
Nonetheless, because they've come to stay, "the Russians," as they're often called, may in the long run be part of the salvation of their new homeland. They joined the aliyah (literally, "the ascent") in order to move up in the world. They didn't leave an expansionist, totalitarian empire that repressed its minorities only to become citizens of a garrison state at war with its neighbors as well as with 1.7 million embittered, disfranchised and mutinous Palestinians...
Western officials did not exempt Tudjman from fault. Said a U.S. diplomat: "The Croatian government is far from blameless or democratic, and it has severely discriminated against Serbs living in Croatia." But Milosevic's aims are expansionist, and success on his part threatens to undo everything the E.C. stands...
When the U.S. tried to raise its concern over the Soviet Union's abuses of human rights, Moscow would indignantly reject "interference in our internal affairs." American protests against the U.S.S.R.'s expansionist behavior evoked a similar combination of stonewalling and self-righteousness: the Soviet Union, its representatives insisted, had rights equal to those of the U.S., including the right to throw its weight around in every corner of the globe. In practice, that meant a license to invade other countries, underwrite leftist insurgencies and provide political and military support to Marxist regimes...