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...troops. We can never impose a peace, he warned, but we can minimize the risk. Again, Dole failed to attack Clinton's one true Achilles heel: his complete failure of moral leadership in foreign affairs. Here is a president who, unlike Bob Dole, knuckled under to the Europeans on Bosnia, betrayed human rights for free markets in China and improperly intervened in Israeli elections in the Middle East. If Dole can't see these weaknesses, then he's not smart enough to be president...
Foreign policy questions presented Dole with a different kind of problem. He accused Clinton of an ad hoc foreign policy and effectively listed trouble spots such as Bosnia, Iraq and North Korea, where policy has been made on the fly. But in the aftermath of the cold war, which deprived both parties of clear-cut disputes in foreign policy, ad hoc-ism is a bipartisan problem...
...Bosnia, for example, Dole has long favored arming the Muslims to level the killing fields. Clinton's supported that too, but only rhetorically--a failure that could cause U.S. troops to remain there until the peace is finally secured, which may mean indefinitely...
...there is a democratically elected president in Haiti, peace in Bosnia--we've just had elections there," Clinton said. "We made progress in Northern Ireland and the Middle East...
SARAJEVO: The three members of Bosnia's divided presidency found some surprising common ground at their first meeting Monday. The fact that the meeting was held at all is perhaps the most significant news, notes TIME's Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi. Momcilo Krajisnik, the presidency's Serbian member who has long been a fierce advocate of independence for the Serb Republic, had as recently as Sunday said that the meeting might not come off. "He could easily have refused to meet at all, just claim he had important prior commitments," says Calabresi. Krajisnik, Muslim leader Alija Izetbegovic...