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Created: July 21, 2002
Latest Update: July 21, 2002
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Military Intervention by the U.S. as World Policeman

Teaching Essay Copyright: Jeanne Curran and Susan R. Takata and Individaul Authors, July 2002.
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This essay was prompted by a New York Times book review by Bernard Schwartz. The Post-Powell Doctrine by Bernard Schwartz on Sunday, July 21, 2002, at p. 11. Backup.

"Bernard Schwartz is the books and critics editor and a senior editor at The Atlantic Monthly." Schwartz' review of Max Boot's The Savage Wars of Peace, Basic Books, and Eliot A. Cohen's Supreme Command,The Free Press, brings out very clearly the left and right perspectives on the issue of U.S. intervention as world policeman. Both Boot and Cohen represent, according to Schwartz, represent the opposite view from that of Colin Powell, who does not want the U.S. to intervene unless it is in the U.S. interest to do so and unless the intervention is whole-hearted and swift. Boot and Cohen blame the U.S. military for our lack of preparedness and willingness to enter "limited" or "small" wars of intervention in the name of "nation building."

No time this weekend, but I will outline notes on the articles with the two perspectives, left and right, sort of, bearing in mind that nothing is that clear anymore, so that we can polish such arguments for Moot Court this Fall. Soon. jeanne

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