Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"Right when I was about to pull the trigger, I stepped back and thought about how messy my room would get [if I went through with it]," William says. "That's the effect intervention would have."
"If you say something, you're making a commitment," he says. An intervention must be wholehearted and should include a discussion of other options, he says.
John R. MacArthur, who recently wroteSecond Front: Censorship and Propoganda in the Gulf War, also critized government intervention in the media during the Gulf War. Reporters covering the Gulf War was organized into "pools" closely supervised by military officials, he said.
MacArthur said that the media also failed to cover adequately the U.S. intervention in Somalia. Only foreign photographers took pictures of the mutilation of American corpses after the failed kidnapping attempt of faction leader General Mohammed Farrah Aidid, MacArthur said.
That some resent their exclusion cannot be denied: It is said that Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, failing to make the Porcellian--despite Theodore's intervention--forever regretted the fact. Still, he bore his disappointment bravely.