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...During the Clinton years, we tried foreign policy as social work in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia and Kosovo. But that was during the dreamtime between the end of the cold war and 9/11. Today with the war on terrorism engaging us on every continent, with daily attacks on Americans in Baghdad and with international terrorists gathering in Iraq to make their stand - and test our resolve - we must husband our resources and sharpen our focus. Of course, we are prepared to give relief aid for humanitarian missions in places like Liberia. But is that a job for the U.S. military...
...power support for understaffed U.N. forces that was at the root of the failures that Elliott cited. U.S. pressure in the Security Council to withdraw rather than enlarge the U.N. peacekeeping forces in Rwanda contributed to the severity of the massacre. The Dutch peacekeepers who failed to act in Bosnia did not have adequate support or a mandate from the five permanent members of the Security Council--and the U.S. did not push for additional resources. And it is difficult to blame the U.N. for the failed mission in Somalia, which was composed mainly of American forces led by Americans...
Katherine M. Dimengo ’04, a Crimson editor, is an English and American Literature and Language concentrator in Winthrop House. After attempting to learn French—which she spitefully declined to do while living in a French-speaking nation—she is traveling in Bosnia-Herzegovina...
Eight years after its disastrous conflict, Bosnia, of course, has problems—especially with the drying up of European and American support as other regions have become more attractive aid recipients. But it is the growing normalcy that is most striking here. After a few weeks here, I was already convinced that all the shocked “why would you want to go there” people had to be shortsighted, and wrong. As Bosnians have argued to me, the everyday rhythms of life overshadow the problems of the past. It is these cultural gems that...
...sure the secret will soon come out. Prague, Slovenia, Krakow, Dubrovnik have all been unearthed first by the wild, devil-may-care adventurers. They are now the playgrounds of Europeans on August siestas and college kids looking for cheaper culture than the West sells. I have great trust in Bosnia that soon it will get itself on this list. The difficulty and expense of getting into the country seems to be the biggest, practically only, barrier to foreigners...