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...Clinton's ambassador to the U.N. and then as Secretary of State, she argued that the U.S. was the world's "indispensable nation," its muscle essential to solving humanitarian crises and eradicating their causes, wherever they arose. For their promiscuous deployment of American force in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia and Kosovo, she and her boss were much derided. Republicans thought the Clinton Administration frittered away American power in places that weren't worth it, ignoring matters of vital U.S. national interest in favor of a feel-good, bleeding-heart preoccupation with the suffering of those unfortunate to live in places...
...election. That almost certainly means at least three more years of awkward limbo, with Blair unable to anchor his pro-euro sentiments in any specific policy and thwarted in his big ambition to lead Britain into the heart of the Continent. Foreign policy, after controversial interventions in Bosnia and Kosovo paid off, used to be a place where Blair soared, but Iraq is turning it into a millstone. The coalition's quick victory has been eclipsed by the failure to find any weapons of mass destruction, on which he grounded the case for war. Last week his former International Development...
Known as embedded reporting, the practice first emerged in Kosovo and Afghanistan, but saw its first large-scale implementation in Iraq—where roughly 600 reporters were embedded in coalition units...
Just as the U.N.’s failure to act decisively initially precluded its involvement in post-war Kosovo and Bosnia, the first phases of Iraqi reconstruction must be left to the Coalition partners who put their reputation on the line. The matter is not simply one of fairness, as Powell phrased it. It’s a matter of vision. Just as it was inconceivable to let a Milosevic-sympathethizer have a say in the original stages of Kosovo’s reconstruction, allowing French diplomats who tacitly reinforced an oppressive Iraqi regime to control the new Iraq...
...Iraqi government without exercising coercive control. If our European detractors are worried only because of their fear that the United States will not secure human rights and democracy in Iraq, then such a U.N. watchdog role should let them sleep well. And just as Bosnia and Kosovo are now home to U.N. administrators, there will someday be a place in Iraq for the U.N. (if the soon-to-debut government of Iraq approves it) when the political climate grows less shrill...