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Article: The right seeks a road map for new world. (formulating a new foreign policy for the 'political right') (Cover Story)
- Article from:
- Insight on the News
- Article date:
- March 1, 1993
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Summary: The obsolescence of anticommunism is forcing America's political right to reexamine the nation's interests in foreign policy. Opinions run the gamut from isolationism to interventionism, although all parties to the foreign policy debate claim to be realists. If a right-wing consensus can be reached - and that is no sure thing - it may depend upon what initiatives emerge from the Democratic White House.
The last time conservatives faced a Democrat in the White House, foreign policy was a matter of life and death to them. The disparate coalition of forces that finally mustered against Jimmy Carter shared one idea: His foreign policy was a disaster. ...