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Debating War - Why Arguments Opposing American Wars and Interventions Fail (Paperback)
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Debating War - Why Arguments Opposing American Wars and Interventions Fail (Paperback)
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What arguments have critics of American wars and interventions put
forward, and what arguments do they currently employ? Thomas
Jefferson, Henry Thoreau, John Calhoun, the Anti-Imperialist
League, Herbert Hoover, Charles Lindbergh, Martin Luther King Jr.,
and Ron Paul (among others) have criticized proposals to intervene
in other countries, enter wars, acquire foreign territory, and
engage in a forward defense posture. Despite cogent objections,
they have also generally lost the argument. Why do they lose? This
book provides answers to these questions through a survey of
oppositional arguments over time, augmented by the views of
contemporary critics, including those of Ron Paul, Chalmers Johnson
and Noam Chomsky. Author David J. Lorenzo demonstrates how and why
a significant number of arguments are dismissed as irrelevant,
unpatriotic, overly pessimistic, or radically out of the
mainstream. Other lines of reasoning might provide a compelling
critique of wars and interventions from a wide variety of
perspectives - and still lose. Evaluating oppositional arguments in
detail allows the reader to understand problems likely to be faced
in the context of policy discussions, to grasp important political
differences and the potential for alliances among critics, and
ultimately to influence decision-making and America's place in the
international power structure.
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