firefox
03-07-2007, 05:24 AM
Hey all. I'm sorry this is in PDF form and not typed out here, but it is 6.5 pages long, and I doubt you all want to do that much scrolling in your browser. My paper, "Presidential Power And The Iraq War", is a study of how a modern president should and should not operate, vis a vis Bush and the Iraq War. This essay is critical of the administration in many ways, but is not an attack on the Bush Administration or the Iraq War proper. Rather, it is meant as a template for understanding how Presidents behave. Below is my thesis:
" The current military conflict in Iraq is a very relevant and emotional, if not widely understood
development in American politics over the last several years. There has been much public discussion
about individual events and moral dilemmas relating to the war. However, relatively little effort has been
put into understanding these events through the lens of Presidential power. I will utilize the framework of
Presidential power laid out by the late Richard Neustadt's 1961 book, Presidential Power and The
Modern Presidents. This nearly fifty-year-old framework is not perfect (see critiques below), but I
believe it is relevant enough to understand a great deal about not only what shaped Bush's decisions in
this context, but also what influences the actions of any holder of the office in modern times."
Party on, scholars!
URL: http://libertarianactivism.com/writings/pg310-paper1-iraq-war.pdf
" The current military conflict in Iraq is a very relevant and emotional, if not widely understood
development in American politics over the last several years. There has been much public discussion
about individual events and moral dilemmas relating to the war. However, relatively little effort has been
put into understanding these events through the lens of Presidential power. I will utilize the framework of
Presidential power laid out by the late Richard Neustadt's 1961 book, Presidential Power and The
Modern Presidents. This nearly fifty-year-old framework is not perfect (see critiques below), but I
believe it is relevant enough to understand a great deal about not only what shaped Bush's decisions in
this context, but also what influences the actions of any holder of the office in modern times."
Party on, scholars!
URL: http://libertarianactivism.com/writings/pg310-paper1-iraq-war.pdf