Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Writer and publisher Leonard Fein spoke yesterday at Hillel, criticizing the U.S. government's "reluctance to seriously consider" military intervention in Bosnia.
The truth is, while I was worried about the danger of intervention in the Balkans, I didn't consider Somalia to be a problem for the Lone Remaining Superpower. I saw pictures of skin-and-bones Somali gunmen and scoffed. I thought we could walk in, mop the place up...
Clinton's plans for intervention in Bosnia met with a chorus of teeth-chattering. We fear the Balkans; we fear the fierce, tribal warfare and the lack of clear boundaries. Most of us opposed sending any troops to Bosnia, no matter how limited the mission's objectives. But in Somalia...
I'm not saying that we should never have gone to Somalia. The society was crumbling down on the heads of the people, and they were suffering. Military intervention was necessary to avert even more unbelievable horror. Intervention was right.
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