What arguments have critics of American wars and interventions put forward, and what arguments do they currently employ? Thomas Jefferson, Henry Thoreau, John Calhoun, the Anti-Imperialist League, Herbert Hoover, Charles Lindbergh, Martin Luther King Jr., and Ron Paul (among others) have criticized proposals to intervene in other countries, enter wars, acquire foreign territory, and engage in a forward defense posture. Despite cogent objections, they have also generally lost the argument. Why do they lose?This book provides answers to these questions through a survey of oppositional arguments
1. Opposition to wars and interventions -- 2. From the early republic to the Spanish-American War -- 3. The Great War and World War II -- 4. Arguments in the Cold War and Post-Cold War eras -- 5. Ron Paul : the importance of natural order -- 6. Noam Chomsky : hegemony and manufactured consent -- 7. Chalmers Johnson : the military empire -- 8. Comparisons, analysis and conclusions.
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