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FOREWORD
4. William A. Dorman and Steven Livingston, “Establishing the Gulf
Policy Debate,” in Taken By Storm: The Media, Public Opinion,
and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Gulf War, ed. Lance Bennett and
David L. Paletz (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994), 66.
5. For an example of the first position, see George Kennan, “Somalia:
Through a Glass Darkly,” New York Times, September 30, 1993,
A25. For an argument on the second position, see Steven
Livingston and Todd Eachus, “Humanitarian Crises and U.S.
Foreign Policy: Somalia and the CNN Effect Reconsidered,”
Political Communication 12, no. 4 (October–December 1995–96):
413–429.
6. Richard Haass, Intervention: The Use of American Military Force
in the Post-Cold War World (Washington, DC: Carnegie
Endowment Book, 1994).
7. Emphasis added.
8. For better or worse, whether considered an example of academic
prescience or an idea that policymakers have turned into a self-
fulfilling prophecy, Samuel P. Huntington’s clash of civilizations
has filled the void.
9. Among the plethora of books about the Iraq war and the role of
Neo-Conservative ideology, see Thomas Rick, Fiasco: The
American Military Adventure in Iraq (New York: Penguin Press,
2006).