Abstract

A post-cold war world is witnessing increasingly complicated new problems and challenges along with constant instabilities and conflicts between states and within a state． Military intervention，often in the name of safeguarding and promoting values of (western) democracy and freedom, is a common phenomenon in international politics. In the United States, statesmen and decision-makers design not only detailed plans for the military intervention but also elaborate language strategies that facilitate the unfolding practice of military intervention． Democratic rhetoric and military interventions are closely interwoven as a whole． Post-cold war U.S. national interests are not only about pursuing the nation's physical profits but also about maintaining the values and ideas to which the nation adheres． To take given political，economic and cultural values and ideas as universal ones excludes other values and ideas from other cultures and civilizations around the world. It justifies military interventions conducted by U.S. and its allies． The globalization of western “fundamentalisms” is likely to be new sources of global and regional instabilities，interstates hatred，and the elevation conflicts and violence． Paradoxically western values of "democracy" and "freedom" are both strong and vulnerable in today’s world．