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Reagan's China trip is but another chapter in his how-to book on leadership by image manipulation. The President survives a bomb attack in Lebanon by invading Grenada, tempers anti-interventionist sentiment in El Salvador by staging marginally democratic election there, and turns the tables on criticism of his terrorist policies in Nicaragua by announcing a stepped-up anti-terrorist policy himself. Now China, but if you close your eyes, you can make it go away...
...foreign policy is cautious, probably less interventionist than his main rivals'. He called for the withdrawal of Marines from Beirut in September 1982, long before Mondale or Glenn did. He favored the deployment of U.S. Pershing II and cruise missiles in Western Europe, but only reluctantly; NATO solidarity, he believes, is too much at stake to do otherwise...
Hart is clearly the strongest candidate on defense issues. He is largely non-interventionist, but his desire to avoid military involvement does not stem from McGovern-like isolationist sentiment ("America come home"). In the Senate, Hart has been on the front line of legislators fighting for the production of less expensive, less sophisticated out more mobile weaponry. While advocating a defense increase of about four percent--the same as Mondale--Hart has argued his case in terms of what the money is spent on. Hart led a 1983 filibuster against the MX missile, opposed the B1 bomber...
...DEMOCRATIC Presidential nominee in 1972. George s. McGovern stood for active, compassionate government at home, thoughtful, non-interventionist policies abroad, and a Democratic Party committed to the needs of the underprivileged...
...centrism is negative: afflicted by on-the-one-hand, on-the-other-hand passivity that searches constantly for the lowest common denominator, that seeks the neutrality of the center as a refuge from the passion of the extremes. Liberal internationalism is a passion for democratic principles, and for bold interventionist Government to carry them out. It is a standing challenge, a rebuke, to the rigidities and timidities of the newly dominant right and left. That is perhaps why it commands so large a following among intellectuals, even it it has lost ground among politicians. And lost ground...