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...croissant lover who had once commented that no one could be truly civilized without having dined out was despised by radicals. His feline remark became evidence against him. Along with fascism, treason and a raft of other crimes, Deng was accused by some Red Guards of promoting cat-ism...
...stone. She opposed the Gulf War and now says she was wrong. She pushed to capture Somali warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid, but has been sobered by that debacle. She advocated "assertive multilateralism" in Bosnia, which meant joining forces with the U.N. to impose a peace, but when that fuzzy "ism" became the butt of jokes, she dropped it. What's less clear is where the lessons of Munich next apply. "I would never recommend that the President of the U.S. use force lightly," she says. She follows a "doability doctrine": America should use its military power where...
...first bombing were members of the Sunni Muslim majority of the country. The 40 in custody for the Dhahran attack belong to the kingdom's Shi'ite minority. And the Shi'ite suspects bring with them the specter of a greater menace--Iran, the center of Shi'ism that lies about 160 miles across the gulf. Indeed, the Saudis believe Tehran is the true perpetrator of the Dhahran incident. They have turned over evidence to Washington, which is now considering the investigation's credibility and weighing the cost of retaliating against the Iranians. For the U.S. the choices...
...know the outcome of their stories now. One, Joe McCarthy of Appleton, Wisconsin, would turn into a household ism and be dead within a decade of a boozehound's liver; three would make it to the White House, grasping all of Washington's power for a moment. One President would be assassinated in Texas. Two (Johnson and Nixon) would be driven from office in disgrace, which was also, by the way, the fate of world communism...
...accused Clinton of an ad hoc foreign policy and effectively listed trouble spots such as Bosnia, Iraq and North Korea, where policy has been made on the fly. But in the aftermath of the cold war, which deprived both parties of clear-cut disputes in foreign policy, ad hoc-ism is a bipartisan problem...