Brezhnev had blundered into Afghanistan, and the U.S.S.R. had paid a heavy price in soldiers (almost 14,000), matériel, and foreign hostility.
China continues to funnel emergency aid to help bolster North Korea, which sees United Nations sanctions as proof of foreign hostility and a justification for its continued development of nuclear weapons.
On accountability, Mr. Obama assailed the Bush administration's failure to heed the War Powers Act, requiring congressional authorization when the United States is engaged in foreign hostilities for more than 60 days.
The act sought to restrain the president's ability to commit U.S. forces overseas by requiring the executive branch to consult with and report to Congress before involving U.S. forces in foreign hostilities.
Strongly nationalistic, they often took an aggressive approach to foreign policy including hostility toward the policies of the European Union (EU and they sharply criticized Poland's historical enemies, Germany and Russia.
In their own way, the foreign missionaries provoked hostility, too.
The find means that Israel, with a long history of dependence on foreign energy, and hostility and boycotts from many of the biggest energy powers, could find itself in a much more advantageous position in the coming decade.
The revisionism was implicit recognition that the Libyan people would have been quite unmoved had Reagan's F-111s got him, that he had reached a nadir of unpopularity, the cumulative consequence of American hostility, foreign misadventures, domestic repression and the havoc wrought by his puerile Green Book socio-economic theories.
A president of the United States, however fascinated by the country itself, must deal with the extraordinary complexity of our foreign entanglements, old hostilities and marriages of convenience, many of them patches on a reality that has shifted over decades.
But Slovenia's size and its hostility to foreign influence meant that for years it resisted foreign capital as a solution for its banks and cash-starved industries.
India was criticised, notably by Barack Obama, for its perceived hostility to foreign investment.
