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...intervention is sheer madness. Well-intentioned madness, but madness nonetheless. Perhaps a year ago a prescient West could have stationed forces to prevent the current war. But that time is long past. The Bosnian egg cannot be unscrambled. Intervention to reconstitute the broken Bosnian state would require enormous force, entail enormous risk, and offer no chance of success...
...Because Harvard insists on providing the "basics" to all its teams. At the same time, there is some dispute over what these "basics" entail. But this much is clear: Harvard's water polo team cannot expect the same level of support that the hockey team receives; it has neither the alumni, fan, student or media interest to generate such support...
Adomanis would not comment on the specificchanges the proposal would entail...
...price, as Adolf Hitler marched into Austria, carved up Czechoslovakia. ! For months, leaders in Europe and the U.S. have been wringing their hands over the human tragedy in the Balkans, yet have shied away from facing the hard choices that any effort to stop the killing would entail. Clearly, there is no simple solution, diplomatic or military. Economic sanctions, mediation and U.N. peacekeepers have been tried without stopping the fighting. No case for armed intervention appeals to any President, Prime Minister or people. Frustrated, Western leaders have averted their gaze while first Slovenia, then Croatia, now Bosnia descended into chaos...
Something similar could happen elsewhere, and not only in Latin America. Throughout the former Soviet bloc, the new leaders are asking their citizens to pay for the sins of the old regime; they are embarked on free-market reforms that entail massive hardships in the short and middle run. And they are doing all this without the benefit of a strong state. For decades, the Soviet-style state was identified with a defunct ideology and with corrupt, repressive institutions, notably the Communist Party. Now those institutions have self-destructed, opening the way for both freedom and its dark underside, which...