Word: isolationists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...what is the U.N., other than great architecture? I had never thought through the intellectual and political implications of the U.N., and the role the United States plays within it, until I attended a conference on international relations this fall. The experience of viewing internationalism from a much more isolationist perspective than my own taught me an important lesson about the Ivory Tower and its dangers...
...suppose the two parties call off the endless Punch-and-Judy show that passes for political discourse; suppose they sit down in January and decide to grapple with entitlements, with Bob Dole playing a key role in the process (as Wendell Willkie did after 1940 in combatting America's isolationist tradition). Suppose the disclosures about campaign finances finally embarrass the two parties enough to create the climate for real reform...
...Convention in August, Pat Buchanan held a press conference Wednesday to release his version of the GOP agenda and to outline his requirements for endorsing Bob Dole. In his platform, Buchanan reiterates his support for a constitutional ban on abortion, for broad tax cuts, a crackdown on immigration and isolationist trade policies. The items, said Buchanan, were not "take it or leave it proposals," but were an important means of delineating the difference between the GOP candidate and Bill Clinton. Though "insulted" by the Dole campaign's refusal to let him speak at the national convention, Buchanan said Wednesday that...
...Many of his ideas are not in tune with those of Newt Gingrich and many of the mainstream Republicans," said David S. DeSimone '98, vice president of the Harvard Republican Club. "Buchanan's economic policy is a protectionist policy, isolationist in nature, and that's not a part of the Republican Party...
...lessons the U.S. learned from its isolationist diplomacy 70 years ago are just as applicable to today's new diplomatic situations, Forbes said...