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Article: The lure of detachment. (change in US's foreign policy after Cold War from interventionism to detachment)
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- World Policy Journal
- Article date:
- September 22, 1994
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During the Cold War, critics often denounced what they called America's urge for global intervention. Now we hear complaints, sometimes from the same critics, that the United States has become overly reluctant to intervene militarily. How do we explain this?
It used to be that the decision whether or not to intervene was easy. Were Communists involved? Could they be easily removed? Today these guideposts are gone and nothing has replaced them. Should we now intervene abroad for democracy? For morality? For humanitarianism? For economic interests? For "world order" To relieve media pressure to "do something"
With the end of the Cold War, we no longer know. ...