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...interests. I believe we can act in Haiti with minimal losses. Haiti's presence nearby does not make our mission more urgent or more just. It only makes it easier. It is mostly easy, however, because we are strong and they are weak. Haiti, then, is a doable good deed. To a considerable extent it is within our capacity to alleviate the politically based terror there. We might even help democracy flourish...
...well aware from books about the American system of democracy, how it works," he said. "But we would like to know how it works in reality, in actions, in deed...
...arrested Friday in Ottawa. The Feds want to know if he's connected to a Libyan terrorist group--and if that group was behind the Feb. 25, 1993, bombing that killed six people and injured more than 1,000. Four men are already serving life sentences for the deed...
Nevertheless, it must be frustrating for any President to watch the Fed playing party pooper. That's why Clinton deserves great credit for supporting Alan Greenspan -- just as Ronald Reagan's best economic deed was standing by without protest as Fed chairman Paul Volcker wrung inflation out of the economy in the early 1980s. Clinton's fortitude is even more admirable, since Greenspan is trying to avoid a future bout of inflation, not cure a current one. And according to Woodward, Clinton's political advisers all think Greenspan is the devil incarnate, so Clinton gets extra points for resisting them...
Achievement can make ambition go sour, unless you have a string of hopes you cannot exhaust. Necessarily such a long string of hopes involves other people. Do a good or great deed; sit down and shut up for a year or decade; then do another...