01-15-2010 – Antique Cameras « //LucasHutmacherDotCom

01-15-2010 – Antique Cameras

Sometimes, the language is more direct, as when resident Lyndon Johnson, speaking to the nation during the Vietnam War, talked of the United States as being “number one.” Or, when he said, “Make no mistake about it, we will prevail.”

Even more blunt was a 1980 article in the influential Foreign Affairs by Johns Hopkins political scientist Robert W. Tucker; in regard to Central America, he wrote, “We have regularly played a determining role in making and in unmaking governments, and we have defined what we have considered to be the acceptable behavior of governments.” Tucker urged “a policy of a resurgent America to prevent the coming to power of radical regimes in Central America” and asked, “Would a return to a policy of the past work in Central America? … There is no persuasive reason for believing it would not… Right-wing governments will have to be given steady outside support, even, if necessary, by sending in American forces.”