Word: isolationists
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...nativist, isolationist message aimed at the angry white men who voted for Ross Perot in 1992 and at Reagan Democrats who Buchanan hopes will "cross over" to vote in Republican primaries and caucuses in closely contested states like Iowa, South Carolina and Georgia. Bay Buchanan admits that many of the economic nationalists her brother is courting are pro-choice or libertarian and "disagree with us on social policy." But she believes the shaky coalition will hold because both groups think Buchanan will fight for them...
Havel cautioned the United States againstisolationism, listing several examples of timesthe nation had been hurt by isolationist stances...
Republican presidential hopeful Pat Buchanansaid today that the U.S. should eliminate all foreign aid funding and use the money to cut taxes on American small business. Although President Clinton has called aRepublican proposal to reduce foreign aid spendingfrom $12.7 billion to $11.8 billion next year "isolationist," Buchanan is pushing the GOP to wipe out funding entirely. "The isolationist, anti-NAFTA constituency is one of three groups Buchanan is appealing to," says TIME's Laurence Barrett, "the others being the gun control people and the social conservatives. What he is trying to do is become the main alternative...
...diet, the U.S. military costs nearly as much as the rest of the world's armies put together. "There's no other country that has the requirements we're confronted with," says Defense Secretary William Perry. "Unless we're willing to back off those requirements and go into an isolationist stance, we will have a uniquely high military budget...
...week after his first concrete veto threat (against certain spending cuts in the current budget), President Clinton took aim at two more congressional proposals. G.O.P. leaders in the House postponed a vote on their foreign-aid bill after the President blasted its cuts and its "isolationist" policy directives as a "frontal assault" on presidential authority. Meanwhile, Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman warned that a presidential veto would await any attempt to revamp the federal food-stamp program into a block-grant package to the states...