Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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By these criteria, military intervention in Somalia was a mistake, in the Clinton version even more than in the Bush version. The idea of bringing democracy to Haiti with the help of a few hundred lightly armed troops (or even with much stronger forces) was harebrained, no matter what political...
Do we then ignore any and all explosive ethnic conflicts? After all, how many Bosnias would it take to tear the fabric of an interdependent world and damage the global marketplace, which is essential to our prosperity? We cannot ignore them, but we cannot usually solve them by sending in...
The overriding U.S. national interest is an open world in which America can thrive. (That is why protectionism and the anti-NAFTA campaign, merely other forms of isolationism, are so dangerous.) But such a world will not even be approached without American ideas, initiatives and sustained, sophisticated presidential leadership. Power...
If the Clinton Administration's gambit is to set Francois up for a fall, Haiti's chief of repression is not playing. Clinton is determined to avoid a U.S. military intervention and will revisit that decision only if harm comes to any of the thousand or so Americans still in...
Few in the U.S. think the risks are worth it. A TIME-Yankelovich poll last week showed that 66% of Americans oppose military intervention. Resistance in Congress is equally strong. Not everyone agrees with Republican Jesse Helms of North Carolina, who has referred to Aristide as "a psychopath" and "a...