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...violence in Somalia and the stumbling in Haiti have stirred up isolationist forces at home. Congressional leaders such as Senators Robert C. Byrd (D.-W.Va.) and Robert J. Dole (R.-Kansas) are hoping to institute tough restrictions on future operations. They would like the U.S. to deploy military personnel abroad only when our immediate national interests were affected. In other words: not in Somalia, not in Haiti, not in Bosnia. Without active United States support, hopes of making the United Nations an effective institution would be put on hold and potentially shattered...
July 1985 In a letter to then-Senate Majority Leader Robert J. Dole (R-Kan.) and then-Senate Minority Leader Robert C. Byrd (D-W. Va.), Harvard President Derek C. Bok urges that the United States place sanctions on South Africa for refusing to dismantle apartheid...
When the going gets tough, pundits and politicians seem to head for the hills. As unrest and strife continue in southern Mogadishu, calls for an end to the United States commitment to the United Nations operation in Somalia mount. From Capitol Hill, Senators Robert Dole and Robert Byrd question why we're there. In an editorial, The New York Times ponders whether it's time to come home. Former President Jimmy Carter lambastes the violence of the United Nations forces...
...this month, immediately threatened to withdraw its 2,400 troops unless the goals of the mission were reassessed. The Germans, who have sent only 250 of a promised 1,700-strong contingent, grumbled that it was a mistake to have soldiers in Somalia at all. In Washington, Democrat Robert Byrd thundered a warning that "the Senate has not bought into a police action against Somali warlords...
Maybe the Democrats need some charismatic leaders in the Congress to have a truly united liberal front. Gone are the days of Sam Rayburn, Tip O'Neill, and Robert Byrd. Maybe those politicians are just too worried about being re-elected by now-defunct Reagan Democrats. As for the "I need a new term to do even more good" excuse, it basically describes campaign rhetoric for the last hundred years...