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Article: `Goodbye, Monroe Doctrine'
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- August 13, 1994
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Charles Krauthammer argues that the Clinton administration
should not seek U.N. (or presumably congressional) approval before
invading Haiti {"Goodbye, Monroe Doctrine," op-ed, Aug. 2}. A great
power "does not ask permission to put out a fire in one's own
backyard," he insists. "Deng Xiaoping does not ask for U.S.
approval" when "China sends warships to secure a South China Sea oil
patch it claims from Vietnam."
"We are global superpower," Krauthammer explains. "We are not a
country like any other." Both these statements are true, but the
reason the United States is a country unlike any other is not
because it is stronger than everybody else, but because it was
founded on distinctive ...