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Article: Our Sphere, Their Sphere; The United States has some areas of influence it shouldn't give up.
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- The Washington Post
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- October 7, 1994
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With American troops in Haiti and Russian troops engaged in at
least three neighboring civil wars, the "sphere of influence"
question is upon us. During last week's Yeltsin summit the question
of spheres came up again and again. Does the United States have one?
Should Russia be allowed one?
For American liberalism, spheres of influence - areas of
domination conceded to a Great Power - have long been anathema.
Starting with Woodrow Wilson, they have been identified with all the
amoral Old World geopolitical stratagems that led to the catastrophe
that was the First World War.
When Franklin Roosevelt returned from Yalta in 1945, he
declared that the agreements he, Stalin and Churchill had ...