military policy

"Informational text uses a historical framework to discuss issues surrounding the role of the United States military. Sections include opinions from notable Americans on various sides of the issue followed by encouragement for readers to analyze each opinion."--Provided by publisher.

Psychiatrist Robert Lifton analyzes the Islamic and American visions of a world which competes in a cycle of violence, and calls for restraint in perpetuating them before the world is destroyed.

Examines critically the foreign policy of President Bush's administration focusing on "doctrines of preemptive attack and preventative war." Raises questions about the support of the United States for a select group of dictatorships while imposing democracy on those who are at war with us. A major theme of this discussion is that 'we cannot defeat fear with fear.".

Discusses how the United States practice of intervening all over the globe and how that practice will end up affecting how the world looks at the United States.