The motives behind the establishment of American relations and
             intervention in the internal affairs of smaller nations have been anywhere
             or anything from security, ideological, economic to psychological (Pastor
             1998). The attention pattern the US shows is said to fluctuate between
             obsession and disinterest, or something like a "whirlpool." In its
             obsessive stage, that attention results in, or introduces, massive
             security, political and/or economic programs in critical times in that
             small nation or region. When the crisis is over, the preoccupation also
             In the case of the Caribbean Basin, the US relations suggest a
             drive to draw from its resources, uproot opposing ideologies, implant a
             particular political philosophy or install an economic policy. But the US
             is mainly driven by security, not out of the desire to control the region
             but to keep situations from going out of control to the point of opening
             itself to the control of hostile or opposing influences. If the US wants to
             control a certain nation, it would imprint and leave its military presence
             after a particular crisis. If it only wants to keep rivals out of a region
             or nation, the US withdraws when the crisis is over, as it did in the case
             of the Caribbean Basic (Pastor). The Caribbean Basin is too small and poor
             to win or induce an acquisition or pose as a threat to the US. Clearly, it
             only wanted to ward off powerful opponents from Europe or Asia from
             establishing links with it to the point of utilizing it as a strategic base
             for a future attack or trouble on the US or adjacent neighbors. So that
             when that threat of penetration disappeared, US interest vanished too. This
             explains why the Caribbean Basin has remained in a perpetual cycle of
             What changes have occurred in the Caribbean Basic in the last 20
             years of relation and intervention by the US' US foreign policy in the
             region covers four period...