Word: indonesia
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Serbia could disappear tomorrow without the U.S. even noticing. But the U.S. would notice greatly if Indonesia were to disappear. The real reason we stayed our hand and stifled our righteousness there was to make sure that it doesn...
...Indonesia controls the Strait of Malacca. It is the great southern bulwark against the rising Chinese challenge. It has the largest population in the Muslim world and practices a tolerant Islam that we hope will influence its more militant co-religionists...
Moreover, Indonesia faces dismemberment by separatist revolts in several of its 17,000 islands. If we bludgeoned our way into East Timor the way we did Kosovo, we would encourage separatist rebels on Aceh, in West Irian and throughout Indonesia...
When China oppresses Tibet, Russia ravages Chechnya or Indonesia reduces East Timor to rubble, we do not intervene. China, Russia and Indonesia matter. But Serbia doesn't. So when Kosovo is overrun, we strike...
Strategic calculation must affect where and how America intervenes in the world. Clinton's Timor policy--pressuring Indonesia into granting entry for non-American peacekeepers for a "permissive" occupation--is wise and restrained. It is a pity, however, that the President cannot say plainly what he has done...