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Clark, while anti-communism per se may be right wing, the American right was historically wary of foreign entanglements - isolationist if you will. The highly expansionist foreign policy vision of the post-Cold War world was definitely novel. Also, many people on the left were anti-communist as well.

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Then "anti-communism" is not a good label for the phenomenon that was one of the three legs of the stool. I doubt that the libertarians were expansionist in their anti-communism. So, anti-communism was broad and not uniformly expansionist. Within the three-legged stool, what was the foreign policy common denominator?

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