THE EISENHOWER DOCTRINE:
Question to consider:
Why did Congressional Democrats think that Eisenhower Doctrine was unlikely to succeed from the beginning?
Questions to Consider:
What was the general mood in Washington during this time? How might this mood affect US foreign policy in the region?
Questions to consider:
Clearly, the United States took the step of overruling popular democracy in Lebanon out of fear of international communism and Arab Nationalism. We have seen the United States do this repeatedly(remember the Iran coup?)
Regardless of whether this is a moral or just foreign policy, is it really effective at accomplishing its goals in the long-run?
Are there cases where overruling democracy is justified(consider the context of the Cold War)?