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Does the following article extract, reflect the new (post 80's)
peace-corps policy ?
For those who spent time in Zaire, how do you fell about the present 
circus there ?
Does the history of Haiti since 1800, tell anything about the feasibility
of first world societies, making negroid societies "just like us, except for
colour" ?

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THE QUESTION OF HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION
A Conference Report

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Desch argued  that this  rift arises  because public support
for humanitarian  intervention "tends  to be  fairly shallow
and transient,"  suggesting that  the so-called  CNN  effect
(i.e., the  idea that  televised images of suffering lead to
pressure  for   intervention)   has   been   oversold.
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he
concluded that  the heyday  of humanitarian  intervention in
U.S. foreign policy has passed.
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Strategy is  critical because it allows an administration to
conceptualize  how   the  world  works,  what  the  nation's
interests are,  and how  to match ends with means. Without a
strategy, national  policy will drift when the United States
encounters humanitarian  crises. Under  these circumstances,
policy "will  be swayed  by the  CNN effect  or the personal
religious proclivities  of the president, or somebody around
him, or the last person he heard talking about this who made
sense to him."
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Lastly,
the reconstruction  model, the  most ambitious,  is  largely
ineffective unless  applied to states that have a homogenous
ethnic group or a tradition of liberal governance.
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Human   rights  advocates,   the  media,  and
academics have  short attention  spans,  which  reduces  the
political cost  of not  intervening.   He closed  by warning
that the  "sheer ignorance"  of  advocates  of  intervention
should not  be underestimated,  particularly from  advocates
who have  never been  to the country in question or have not
experienced the realities of military service.
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 Chris Glur.