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- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:06:00 CST
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- From: RICHARD JENSEN <CAMPBELLD@APSU.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: The Spanish/American War
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- Denis Paz asks
- how do the events of Bosnia and Somalia in 1992 "justify" US
- actions in 1898?
- As follows: Cynical historians have assumed that "humanitarian"
- justifications must have been preposterous, because nobody is
- that humanitarian. The "real" reason therefore must have been
- something else (and because it was hidden, probably something
- nefarious.)
- The intervention in Somalia (in response to a media barrage not
- that much different from the US media stress on atrocities in
- Cuba in 1898) demonstrate that the cynical assumptions are not
- necessary at all. That the US can indeed intervene for
- humanitarian reasons. Furthermore, as 1992 perhaps shows (I
- write "perhaps" because the situation changes every day) the US
- has rather more willingness to get involved than European
- powers.
- Richard Jensen
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