Word: paternalistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan, it seems, holds just such an overblown and dangerous vision of American preponderance and Europeans are rightfully angered by his paternalist policies. The idea that the United States can, or should, dictate terms to the allies is as far off base in the pipeline matter as it is with regard to the Israelis in Lebanon. France, Germany, Great Britain and Italy are our allies, not our satellites. It is a strange state of affairs when Reagan wages war for democracy by attempting to emulate the Soviet system of coercion...