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...waresque-but-post-Cold-War "dangerous world," and we will counter them with decisive resolution. Given the current state of United States foreign affairs, Thurmond's assertion has more than a grain of truth. In the last year alone, we have found ourselves mired in diplo-disasters including the Bosnian fiasco; the collapse of relations with China; the hampering of our security policy in the "new" Europe by an increasingly unpredictable and frequently hostile Russia; the shattering of would confidence in our capability to handle regional security "hotspots" from Rwanda and Somalia to Iraq and Chechnya...
...agree, at least on a basic level, on the pressing urgency of global crises such as the Bosnian war and the importance of international resolve in dealing with such conflagrations. Why then the push for isolationism, or what Arthur Schlesinger has termed "the return to the womb?" Despite its minimalist rhetoric, the "new" position does not herald a fresh, more friendly geo-political landscape in which U.S. muscle is no longer needed. As the Senate bill shows, far from Francis Fukuyama's euphoric declaration several years ago that the era of major historical conflict had come...
...complicated, multilateral resolutions. And because collective initiative is harder to set in motion, most conflicts are too large in scale by the time action is taken to be conveniently solved by our much-favored hit-and run air -strike. We learned this a little in the Gulf War; the Bosnian conflict has bitterly rubbed...
...televised indictment of Radovan Karadzic, leader of the Bosnian Serbs, might have caused my venom to rise to near-O.J. levels. But a printed account allows me to nod in agreement, concur that these men should have been captured earlier and that they are wrong. If I saw it on TV, though, I might yell at these slimebags and call for our government to crush them. Thank god for my health that the cable broke...
BILL CLINTON Another Senate action: veto-proof majority votes to end Bosnian arms embargo...