where after the fall of the Berlin Wall officials sug-
16. Quoted in "Anger As Pentagon Chief Kicks Off
gested using NATO to fight the drug war, combat
Visit," South China Morning Post, April 8, 1997.
environmental degradation, and promote student
17. Security Strategy 1998, pp. 2224.
exchanges. Doug Bandow and Ted Galen
Carpenter, "Preserving an Obsolete NATO," Cato
18. Ibid., p. 62. The Korean people, in contrast,
Policy Report, SeptemberOctober 1988, pp. 1,
1012. Now, of course, instability has become the
seem less enthused. A 1997 poll indicates that 70
percent want all American forces to go home after
chief target of the onetime anti-Soviet alliance.
reunification. "U.S. Troop Presence Depends on
39. Security Strategy 1998, p. 11.
Role in Unification: Report," Korea Times, January
24, 1999. Even today some groups protest activities
40. Doug Bandow, Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign
of the U.S. military, including its impact on the
Policy in a Changed World (Washington: Cato
environment. "Noise at U.S. Bombing Range
Institute, 1996), p. 40.
Disturbs Wildlife," Korea Times, September 27,
1998.
41. "South Korea to Pay Less in `99 for Keeping
U.S. Troops," Reuters, December 22, 1998.
19. Security Strategy 1998, p. 62.
Washington has also cut ROK payments under the
20. Ibid., p. 39.
Foreign Military Sales program. Barbara Opall-
Rome, "DoD Lightens Seoul's FMS Burden,"
21. Ibid., p. 35.
Defense News, June 814, 1998, p. 4.
22. Ibid., p. 27.
42. Security Strategy 1998, p. 18.
23. Ibid.
43. Ibid., p. 45. To the contrary, the Indonesian mil-
itary has generated political instability as well as
24. U.S. Department of Defense, United States
violated human rights. Ryaas Rasyid, director-gen-
Security Strategy for the East AsiaPacific Region, p. 6.
eral for regional affairs in Indonesia's Home Affairs
Ministry, observes, "Suharto sent troops to every
25. Security Strategy 1998, pp. 29, 12, 29.
region considered to be threatening national unity.
It created dissatisfaction everywhere." Quoted in
26. Ibid., p. 40.
John McBeth and Margot Cohen, "Loosening the
Bonds," Far Eastern Economic Review, January 21,
27. Ibid., p. 34.
1999, p. 11.
28. For a more detailed discussion of the Taiwan
44. Opposition leader Sam Rainsy complains that
issue, see Ted Galen Carpenter, "Let Taiwan
Western financial aid has hindered reform. He con-
Defend Itself," Cato Institute Policy Analysis no.
tends that half of the soldiers to be demobil-ized
313, August 24, 1998.
with Western money are "ghost" soldiers. Michiyo
Nakamoto and Ted Bardackee, "Financial Aid to
29. Security Strategy 1998, p. 28.
Cambodia `Hinders Reform,'" Financial Times,
February 24, 1999, p. 6.
30. Ibid., p. 40.
45. Cohen, p. 5.
31. Ibid., pp. 37, 39, 38.
46. Perhaps the silliest example of this rationale in
32. Ibid., pp. 42, 64, 66, 43.
action was Woodrow Wilson's formal justification
for entering World War I--to preserve the right of
33. Ibid., pp. 5358, 63, 57.
Americans to travel on armed merchantmen of a
belligerent power carrying munitions through a
34. Ibid., pp. 19, 59, 7.
war zone. See, for example, Doug Bandow, The
Politics of Envy: Statism as Theology (New Brunswick,
35. Joseph Nye, "In Defence of the Alliance with
N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1994), p. 93; Charles
the U.S.," Australian Financial Review, August 3,
Seymour, American Diplomacy during the World War
1998, p. 17.
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1942),
pp. 26128; and Edwin Borchard and William
36. "U.S. Military Chief Sees No Big Threat in
Lage, Neutrality for the United States (New Haven,
Asia," Reuters, February 25, 1999.
Conn.: Yale University Press, 1937), pp. 59235. In
fact, a lively controversy has arisen over the charge
37. Security Strategy 1998, pp. 1011.
that Britain left the Lusitania without escort in the
hope that it would be sunk and would thereby
38. The same phenomenon occurred in Europe,
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