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This is because the Brits and most of the rest of the planet have come to call the worst of American individualism and unfettered capitalism "cowboyism".
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This is because the Brits and most of the rest of the planet have come to call the worst of American individualism and unfettered capitalism "cowboyism".
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Even our president may imitate art in some ways, but I'll defend his "cowboyism" to the death.
Archive 2005-07-01 Richard Nokes 2005
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He accused President George W. Bush of "cowboyism" in dealing with foreign leaders and said that Cheney and Rumsfeld and others could not be kept under control by a president "not versed in international relations and not too interested in them either."
10/20/2005 2005
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Even our president may imitate art in some ways, but I'll defend his "cowboyism" to the death.
Life imitates art Richard Nokes 2005
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On this side of the Atlantic, eager to shed the "cowboyism" of its predecessor, the new U.S. administration unloaded the "war on terror" strategy even faster than Gordon Brown.
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Anti-exceptionalism has clearly shaped his "leading from behind" profile abroad—an offer of self-effacement to offset the presumed American evil of swaggering cowboyism.
Obama and the Burden of Exceptionalism Shelby Steele 2011
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A lot of conservative realists are going to support him, because McCain is an alarming escalation of neoconservative cowboyism, and this country, not to mention the world, cannot take any more of it.
GOPer Leach: Obama's The Genuine Foreign Policy "Realist" Here 2009
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And the grand dame of political discourse on drug-store cowboyism, and eminent Republican saddle burr, Helen Thomas, speaks the truth once more.
Firedoglake » Blue America: Two Dems in NC — Larry Kissell and Heath Shuler 2006
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Addressing scholars, journalists and others at the New America Foundation, Wilkerson accused Bush of “cowboyism” and said he had viewed Condoleezza Rice as “extremely weak.”
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