Word: cohen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cohen: It's not clear exactly who is in charge. I would suspect that there's a clique of officers in the Grenadian army. There are a number of things like that which will become clear...
...Cohen: The fighting has lasted several days. It's taken 3000 of the best soldiers this country has to occupy the island and it's real. There were only 600 Cuban construction workers on the island, but they seemed to have orders to flight to the death, which is not how construction workers usually operate. So yes, I'd say it was quite a serious Cuban military buildup-serious in the context of the eastern Caribbean. We have to remember that to destabilize a microstate like Dominica or a larger one like Jamaica, you don't need fleets of ships...
...Cohen: I think there are a number of justifications. I think that everybody scoffed at the idea that the medical students were in danger. But they did feel in considerable danger. Three students came back saying things like. "It wasn't an invasion. It was a rescue. "That's one justification. I think it's plain that most students felt themselves under serious threat. There was a 24-hour curfew, orders to shoot to kill, a government that just murdered a number of people in cold blood, they felt that that was enough of a justification. I think another justification...
...Cohen: In many respects, I agree with what Professor Patterson says, but the issue here is what happened after Bishop was depend and killed. I don't think it's clear that if the United States had given him a couple of million dollars that that would have saved him. In fact, that might have precipitated his death. You're going to have this kind of problem in a number of countries which have leaders who are basically from authentic active socialists, maybe earlier inclined towards the Soviet Union now wanting to break that the but find in its military...
...Cohen: No, I think one reason is safety of American citizens. Secondly, there's a very substantial element of direct intervention by an external power, Cuba, and to some extent the Soviets. I think there's something illogical about the argument that you only intervene in those cases where it's extremely difficult...