Modern American War

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This paper shows that George W. Bush's reasons for the war on terrorism are similar to those of his father in the first Persian Gulf War and to those of President Johnson at the start of the Vietnam war. The paper analyzes several of the reasons why these earlier presidents waged war, and illustrates that the strategy behind George W. Bush's war on terrorism is aligned with them.

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"Presidents Lyndon Johnson and George Bush took the United States to war for remarkably similar reasons. We will see that George W. Bush's reasoning also runs along the same lines. They were convinced that military intervention against North Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan was necessary to uphold international order. Failure to respond to these acts of aggression, they contended, would have resulted in the erosion of a stable world."

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