Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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At the University of Wyoming, he told 10,000 students, "The people of this land remind me once again that America is not the cynical, confused and tired nation so many in Washington would have us believe it is." At his various stops he again complained of lack of congressional...
Moynihan has claimed that "the United Nations is a place where lies are told." But in his charge that the real issue in Angola is the threat of Soviet domination in Southern Africa, Moynihan himself is party to a bold enough lie. Not only is the Popular Movement for the...
TO A military establishment anxious to restore its credibility after its astounding failure in Indo-China, a Persian Gulf intervention would appear to offer a unique opportunity to redeem past failures by satisfying the compulsion to find and fight a conventional enemy according to conventional ground rules.
The Vietnam war put an end to the simple, powerful imperatives of the cold war. Detente accelerated the end of the old consensus. By juxtaposing enmity and alliance, confrontation and camaraderie, diplomatic sell-outs and revolutionary solidarity, the policy of detente ended the certainties which had defined the cold war...
With this new demonology is born a new American mission: the saving of western civilization from the clutches of the sheikhs through the forcible destruction of OPEC. The whole question of a military intervention in the Persian Gulf thus moves from the mundane level of politics to the metaphysical level...