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...week's end Berger was taking a few shots from detractors. In particular, the notion that Saddam is still playing a game of "cheat and retreat" has reinforced criticism that Clinton has no coherent strategy for containing Saddam. "The problem with the Administration's foreign policy," says Richard Haass of the Brookings Institution, "is there's not enough...
...remains one of the world's most difficult targets. He moves constantly, uses doubles, runs his food through chemical analyzers, kills close associates and even his in-laws to keep others off guard, and employs a ruthlessly loyal security force that has quashed multiple coup attempts since 1991. Richard Haass, who directed Middle Eastern affairs at the National Security Council during the Gulf War, says, "I have yet to see anything remotely persuasive about how you could take out Saddam. A wish is not a policy." One suggestion: million-dollar rewards have helped the U.S. catch foreign terrorists by giving...
Tough talk from a Secretary of State works in the Middle East only if Washington has imaginative, practical ideas that can help bridge the chasm between two such mistrustful adversaries. And those ideas work, says Richard Haass, Middle East adviser under President George Bush, "only if the President is willing to back them up." Clinton could bask in the South Lawn signing of the 1993 agreement because Arafat and Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin were willing to make peace on their own. The test for Clinton now is whether he is prepared to weigh in when the two leaders aren...
Albright has made little headway in other parts of the world. The Israeli-Palestinian talks have broken down, and China has ignored her calls to stop jailing dissidents. "She clearly has a sharper and more public style," says Richard Haass, director of foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution. "But if this were a report card, at best you'd give her an incomplete." The final grade depends on results...
...instead to rely on the ad hoc reactions of the cozy circle of bright, competent but unthreatening advisers who have boosted his performance the past two years. "The biggest thing these appointments tell you about the direction of U.S. foreign policy is that there is no direction," says Richard Haass, a former Bush adviser now at the Brookings Institution...