By Martin Webb, Jake White, Luke Clor, and Evan Huntley

FOREIGN INTERVENTION

BANANA WARS (1898 – 1935)

MORO REBELLION – (1899 – 1913)

AMERICAN CASUALTIES: 377

WORLD WAR I (1917 – 1918)AMERICAN CASUALTIES: 321,

467

VIETNAM WAR (1964 – 1973)AMERICAN CASUALTIES: 361,

864

BEIRUT INTERVENTION (1982 – 1984)AMERICAN CASUALTIES: 424

PERSIAN GULF WAR (1990 – 1991)AMERICAN CASUALTIES: 1, 143

IRAQ (2003 – 2011)AMERICAN CASUALTIES: 36,

710

What is the United States’

role in the world?

• “’Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances, with any portion of the foreign world.” – Farewell Address

• “”My policy has been, and will continue to be… to be upon friendly terms with, but independent of, all the nations of the earth.” – Letter to Governour Morris

GEORGE WASHINGTON

• “Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.” – Pacificus, No. 6

• “Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option… We cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.” – Federalist No. 34

ALEXANDER HAMILTON

• “It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute.” – Letter to the Dey of Algiers

• “To exclude foreign intrigues and foreign partialities, so degrading to all countries and so baneful to free ones; to foster a spirit of independence too just to invade the rights of others…” – Second Inaugural Address

JAMES MADISON

THOMAS JEFFERSON

• “Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none”

• "We wish not to meddle with the internal affairs of any country, nor with the general affairs of Europe.”– Thomas Jefferson to C. W. F. Dumas, 1793

Would our Founding Fathers have wanted this?

• Quotes Database. (2012). Retrieved October 10, 2014, from http://westillholdthesetruths.org/quotes/category/foreign-policy

• Military History of the United States. (2014, October 13). Retrieved September 15, 2014

• Favorite Jefferson Quotes. (1996) Retrived October 10, 2014, Eyler Robert Coates.

• A Chronology of U.S. Military Interventions. (n.d.). Retrieved October 12, 2014, from http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/military/etc/cron.html

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