Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ALLIED LEADERS WERE DISCUSSING INTERVENTION in Bosnia last week when the commanders of the rebel Serb forces and the Bosnian army unexpectedly signed a cease-fire, to take effect on May 9. Suddenly, there was hope that the intervention no one really wants would not be necessary. But would the...
To his men Lisica is a hero, a former Yugoslav Army officer who has battled his way across Bosnia. He thinks he may be tried as a war criminal if the Americans come but says he cannot worry about that. From his office, bare except for the desk, eight chairs...
With Vietnam, American liberalism entered a period of profound isolationism. Just about every subsequent intervention, from Nicaragua to Kuwait, aroused loud liberal protest. The high-water mark was reached on Jan. 12, 1991, when Democrats led the fight to deny President Bush authority to use force against Iraq -- and came...
Thus was enunciated the Clinton doctrine of humanitarian intervention. Yes, there will be interventions for our national interest. But there will also be interventions for reasons of conscience. It has been a long road from Vietnam: the conscientious objector has become the conscientious warrior.
Is conscience a good enough reason? Many liberals think so. Indeed, for many, conscience is the only good reason. The new liberal orthodoxy is that only disinterested intervention is pure and pristine enough to justify the use of force. Violence undertaken for the purpose of securing American interests is not...