Word: interventionist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interesting thing about your editorial "End the War: Support the NLF" is that it is not anti-war or anti-interventionist...
...This neo-interventionist position is a familiar one for Americans. U.S. support of Saigon students and dissident Buddhists who wanted to overthrow Diem in 1963, made the U.S. responsible for a series of weak successor regimes and drew the U.S. further and further into this damned morass. The inglorious arguments that you despise, i.e. that this war is too costly and not in America's interest, would have had us out of Vietnam...
...Europe or the Middle East, if there is coasting on old assumptions that may no longer be valid, the military could occupy the vacuum by fashioning its own, probably parochial policy. Ironically, a retreat from its world responsibilities could be as dangerous for American society as an excess of interventionist zeal. As the Rand Corporation's Arnold Horelick points out, indifference to or isolation from the rest of the world could prompt the U.S. to "build walls, and then you'd get social reorganizations conducive to a garrison state...
...fled. Many cases of schizophrenia and psychosis are attempts to recapture the internal meaning which the patient had lost. Psychotherapy, according to Laing, should encourage and assist the internal voyages of self-discovery rather than coerce the patient back to external "sane" reality by sedation, electric shocks, or other interventionist therapy. Psychotherapy should be an attempt by patient and therapist to recapture the wholeness of experience...
...rejected the most obvious means by which the university offers special privileges to what it should be criticizing. We hope that the Harvard community will oppose ROTC in any form, and will go on to attack Harvard's many other involvements in interventionist policies. Jeffrey Alexander '69 Jeffrey Elman '69 Lance Lindblom '70 Alan Zaslavsky '68-4 Michael Kazin '70 Harvard-Radcliffe...