From Conservapedia  Jump to: navigation, search  Jingoism is a
term used to describe extreme patriotism, especially in the form
of a warlike foreign policy.[1] The term is often derogatory.
The foreign policy of the United States has been described as
jingoist on occasions in history, most recently in criticisms by
liberals of how Republican President George W. Bush handled the
Iraq War. Liberals have not used to the term to criticize
Democratic Presidents' starting of wars, as in the cases of
Democratic President Harry S Truman (Korean War) and Democratic
President Lyndon Johnson (Vietnam War). The term was first used
to describe American foreign policy at the turn of the 20th
century to describe Republican President Theodore Roosevelt's
handling of the Spanish-American War.  The word “jingo” is a
British English form of “golly”, “gosh”, “gee” etc. and is
always part of the term “by jingo!”. The term found its way into
a music hall song, topical during the Turko-Russian War in the
late 1870s when British ant