Word: isolationists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hart is hardly an old-fashioned isolationist, yearning to retreat into a Fortress America. At the debate he was careful to place himself in the "moderate mainstream" of past U.S. Presidents. He insisted that he would fulfill NATO commitments (although he has urged the European nations to foot more of the bill) and honor existing treaty obligations (although he vaguely added that some "may or may not deserve our continued support"). His plan to restructure the military to make it more "maneuverable" by, for instance, building a larger number of smaller aircraft carriers might increase America's ability...
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...
...ADMINISTRATION and Senate, during this week of miswords and misdeeds, had already caused damage to the American international reputation. Perhaps more important, the politicians in Washington, by displaying scorn for the United Nations, gave way to, and fostered, the isolationist bent that lies just below the surface of many Americans' views and all American foreign policy. This reluctance to assume a leading role in world diplomacy, a role that should have been natural for a major power, contributed to the deterioration of international relations preceding World Wars I and II. Immediately after World War II, the U.N. Preparatory Commission concluded...
...nerve to repudiate Wisconsin's red-baiting Joseph McCarthy-even after he smeared General Marshall, Ike's patron-but otherwise took firm command of the campaign. He did, for instance, shrewdly overrule professional advice that he ignore the South and avoid making peace with his Republican rival, isolationist Senator Robert Taft of Ohio. He rejected right-wing Republican demands for a drastic escalation of the Korean conflict, and instead sealed his election victory with a single, mostly meaningless but nonetheless brilliant declaration: "I shall go to Korea...
...Paris between two schools of economic policy within the Socialist Party: the moderate, internationalist "Europeans" and the leftist, often nationalistic "Albanians," as they were nicknamed derisively by their opponents, who accuse them of wanting to cut France off from the rest of the world, like Communist-ruled, isolationist Albania. The moderates argued that France must stay in the European Monetary System (E.M.S.), which requires every member to maintain the value of its currency within a narrow range against the others, even at the cost of domestic sacrifice. The "Albanians" urged Mitterrand to bolt the E.M.S. and resort to protectionism...