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...enforcement of hijab. More important, Rafsanjani wants to end Iran's pariah status in the world community and gain desperately needed aid. "We are in a period of reconstruction," says Rajaie Khorassani, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Majlis (parliament). In a more terse analysis, a Western diplomat concludes, "The revolution is over...
...chessboard. The concept of benevolent interference is already coming back into fashion. Last year, while Liberia was in the throes of its tribal self-immolation, five European envoys in Monrovia pleaded for the U.S. to send in troops to stop the killing. "The interdependence of nations," said an Italian diplomat, "no longer permits other nations to sit idle while one country plunges into anarchy and national suicide." Or, he might have added, mass murder at the hand of its leader...
Some Western analysts also believe that Saddam is engaging in a kind of demographic sabotage. "The refugees are being buzzed and shot at by gunships from behind," said a British diplomat, "clearly with intent to force them toward the borders." Kurdish leader Kirkuki agreed: "The Iraqis are continuing to herd us to these rocky cemeteries in order to rid themselves of the Kurdish problem once...
...dithering annoyed many of Japan's friends. "No one expected Japan to send combat troops," said a senior British diplomat in London. "But they abysmally failed to grasp helpful alternatives." In the U.S., an ABC News/ Washington Post poll showed that 30% of Americans lost respect for Japan during the gulf crisis. In this case, admits a Japanese diplomat, "we projected the image of someone who sat back on the sofa without undertaking the duties expected of an important nation...
...otherwise passive role of Japan at GATT is emblematic of one of its basic problems in foreign affairs: its reluctance to take a visible leading role. Says an Asian diplomat in Tokyo: "The Japanese are not willing to make the hard political choices that go with being a great power." As a result, Japanese foreign policy lacks focus or clear direction. For their part, U.S. officials voice the desire that Tokyo express its views more robustly: open exchanges not only signal the underlying equality of a relationship but also make it easier to manage...