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...having turned against Aidid, the U.N. is left with more questions than answers about its future responsibilities. Should it try to disarm all the warlords? Should it prosecute them? Should it conduct national elections? Should it intervene in case of attack? Most important, is Somalia vital enough to any U.N. member state to invest the money, lives and years required to reconstruct the country...
Though the Security Council could authorize military means to disarm or punish Pyongyang, any attempt to use force would be extremely tricky. Bombing a functioning nuclear facility could produce an instant Chernobyl and, probably, retaliation. "We might try to take out their nuclear capability with a scalpel," says a Western analyst in Seoul, "but they would respond with a chain...
...dropped its insistence that Ukraine give up its nuclear weapons before receiving more economic aid; Washington still wants the country to disarm but figures a carrot might work better than a stick...
...troops are stationed have found protection as well as food. But security in Somalia is a very, very relative term. The U.S.-led troops have generally stayed inside the main towns rather than venturing into the countryside, and they have negotiated pacts with local warlords rather than trying to disarm their followers. That policy certainly helped avoid casualties: eight U.S. servicemen have been killed in Somalia in five months, no more than would have lost their lives in training accidents if they had stayed home...
What's worse, the ill-timed and poorly managed pursuit of a common strategy can disarm the threat of force as a weapon capable of causing the enemy to retreat. "Which is what some of us have come to think of Chris' mission to Europe," says an Administration official about Secretary of State Warren Christopher's recent Continental tour. Coupled with the President's insistence on a concerted response and the allies' resistance to his options menu, "it's not surprising that the Bosnian Serbs concluded we were bluffing and so voted against the Athens agreement," says this official...