Blogging Instead of Writing

Writing an assignment for school, that is. What I'm reading, right this minute: Christopher Layne & Benjamin Schwarz, "American Hegemony: Without an Enemy"
Foreign Policy #92 (Autumn 1993) p. 5-23. Specifically:

The belief that American security is endangered by events in places that most agreee have no intrinsic strategic value is a longstanding tenet of US foreign policy. In 1966 John McNaughton, one of then Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's cheif aides, observed that "it takes some sophistication to see how Vietnam automatically involves our [vital interests]."...

Resurrecting the domino theory, Clinton fears that unstanched instability in the former Yugoslavia will spread to other countries and thereby somehow endanger the United States. With the same logic that propelled American intervention in Indochina, Clinton argues that America's interests require the United States to lead an effort to build a world order shaped by US values.

I'm becoming more and more convinced that the break a lot of people see between the Clinton and Bush years is more wishful thinking than anything. Clinton had his own imperial aims, too. He just made us want in, too.