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THIS IS NOT TO SAY that we must resort to complete non-intervention and Washingtonesque isolationism in our foreign policy. Kennan did not call for complete withdrawal from the international arena. Instead, he proposed that we develop a more conservative, more realistic attitude when determining whether to intervene in the affairs of external states...
...March 17 referendum, while Latvia was leaning toward boycotting it. But Gorbachev's message also carried the kind of rally-round- the-flag overtones sounded by resurgent Communist hard-liners. Should he fail to re-create the Union with popular consent, he will be pressed by the reactionaries to resort to force -- or move aside...
Harrison says that combat should have been viewed "only as a last resort," but "in this particular war, it is clear that communication was still possible before it started...
...question of "last resort" focuses on alternatives to force, notably economic sanctions. The newly retired Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, hoped that economic sanctions would be tried for months more, even up to a year, before any resort to force. An even more difficult criterion to assess is "proportionality," the weighing of the good and evil results. The antiwar protest from leaders of the National Council of Churches included forecasts of hundreds of thousands of casualties and damage lasting "for generations to come...
President Bush took up almost all those issues in his speech last week. On "last resort," the President contended that "extraordinary diplomatic efforts" had preceded hostilities. On discrimination and proportionality, Bush insisted that "we are doing everything possible, believe me, to avoid hurting the innocent," an assertion buttressed in numerous military briefings. Addressing the "probability" test, Bush has said repeatedly that the troops have the means...