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USA As Policeman of the World Thesis Thesis
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USA as Policeman of the World
THESIS STATEMENT AND OUTLINE FOR A PAPER ON THE HISTORICAL ROOTS OF AMERICAN MILITARY ACTIONS ABROAD, 2009-2014
The industrialization and imperialism that followed the U.S. Civil War would have a permanent effect on American military and foreign policy. Yet the aspect of American policy during the Civil War that has had the most relevance during the past five years of American history is particularly unexpected -- we must look to President Abraham Lincoln's most controversial act during the conflict, which was the suspension of habeas corpus, for a proper point of comparison with American military policy in the new millennium. To borrow a phrase from Glenn Greenwald, the Al-Awlaki killings demonstrate that "the due-process-free assassination of U.S. citizens is now a reality." (Greenwald 2011). Tracing these events to U.S. foreign policy during the Civil War will necessarily entail a focus on two earlier events: Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus during the Civil War, and the eventual American plunge into outright imperialism following the Spanish-American War under McKinley.
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(A) This paper will focus on two incidents of American military and foreign policy from the past five years: the 2011 Operation Neptune Spear, in which the U.S. Navy Seals killed Osama Bin Laden in Abbotabad, Pakistan, and the 2011 killings of Anwar Al-Awlaki and his son Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki by Predator Drones in Yemen. The significance of these events indicates a gradual erosion (justified as part of the "War on Terror") of habeas corpus rights and recognition of international law -- this significance will be established more completely with the Al-Awlaki drone killings than with the Bin Laden killing, as both Al-Awlakis were born in the United States and were thus U.S. citizens who had been…
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(C-2) the role of the CIA in eliminating elected leaders in the Americas who demonstrated sympathy toward the Soviets, with specific reference to Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala (1954) and Salvador Allende in Chile (1973);
(C-3) the U.S. invasion of Grenada under Reagan, which perfected the idea of military action as a media event (thus setting the stage for the symbolism and subsequent packaging of the Bin Laden raid);
(C-4) the U.S. capture of Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega under George H.W. Bush, in which a former asset of the U.S. was deemed a liability (which
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