Word: patterson
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...Crimson held a discussion last week on the merits of the Grenada intervention with Eliot Cohen assistant professor of Government who teaches a course on the Introduction to Military Politics and Orlando Patterson, professor of Sociology, who teaches a course in Culture. Social Structure, and Underdevelopment in the Caribbean. Crimson reporter Lavea Brachman moderated the discussion...
Crimson: Professor Patterson, do you see those reasons as justifying the invasion...
...Patterson: No, I don't think that invading is ever justified but I do think that America has a right as a major power to secure islands that are vulnerable from an American point of view. I say this as an American resident but I also see this from the point of view from the Caribbean. The two points of views are somewhat different. From the American point of view, and seeing it from a realpolitik point of view, a world power with what it considers to be an insecure perimeter. The question is, what's the best strategy...
Cohen: In many respects, I agree with what Professor Patterson says, but the issue here is what happened after Bishop was depend and killed. I don't think it's clear that if the United States had given him a couple of million dollars that that would have saved him. In fact, that might have precipitated his death. You're going to have this kind of problem in a number of countries which have leaders who are basically from authentic active socialists, maybe earlier inclined towards the Soviet Union now wanting to break that the but find in its military...
...Donnell Patterson, a teacher at Agassiz Elementary School in Cambridge, agreed that the posters would help. "With the huge number of people filing in and out of here every day, the Coop really has to watch closely for shoplifters, "he said, adding. "The posters will at least make a few people stop and think...