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Peer reviewedProcter, David E. – Western Journal of Speech Communication, 1987
Seeks to identify rhetorical distinctiveness of the rescue mission as a form of belligerency--examining presidential discourse justifying the 1985 Lebanon intervention, the 1965 Dominican intervention, and the 1983 Grenada intervention. Argues that the distinction is in guilt narrowly assigned to a chaotic scene and the concomitant call for…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Foreign Policy, International Relations, Intervention
