Word: unilateralist
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...phrase has revived Bush's reputation abroad as a swaggering unilateralist, just at the very moment his message is supposed to be coalition, coalition, coalition. The outcry from foreign diplomats was followed by various White House explanations, none of them particularly clarifying. Some aides insisted the phrase was a conscious reference to the World War II Axis powers; others argued it was not. The President was a straight talker, others said, and was proud of the phrase. Yet while in Asia and since, he didn't mention it once. Secretary of State Colin Powell, though stoutly defending Bush's expression...
...United States and other developed nations have sought to promote open national economies and global free trade. America’s hypocrisy in raising tariffs destroys its credibility; the Bush administration appears to think the rules apply only to others, not to the United States. Bush’s unilateralist streak has been well documented in the international press—his withdrawal from the Kyoto protocol, his position on missile defense and this latest violation of international collective agreement will only reinforce the world’s perception of American arrogance and further weaken America’s influence...
When not complaining about Americans in "unilateralist overdrive," the Europeans protest, with some justification, that the U.S. prefers peacemaking to peacekeeping. U.S. bombs and cruise missiles helped "pacify" the Balkans, but it is the Europeans who have the task of making sure the peace endures. Fair enough in Europe's backyard, but not in Afghanistan - where Washington seems intent on bowing out of the process of "stabilizing" the country, the better to train its sites on the next target, Iraq...
...obliged to prove how much smarter we are than the cretin from Crawford. So we take our lead from the French (who, when it comes to snobbery, have us beaten) and call Bush’s “axis of evil” comments simplistic, uninformed, antagonistic, unilateralist and any other negative adjective that comes to mind...
...those two truths--the need for allies and the limits to military power--that define the challenge facing George Bush. In its first six months, his Administration sometimes appeared to think it could do without the rest of the world. Sure, the Bush Administration was never as unilateralist as its critics alleged. If it had been, it would not have spent so much time finding a new relationship with Russia. Moreover, some of the matters on which Bush and his team did not share the views of allies--like the Kyoto accord on global warming--are, to put it mildly...