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...some U.S. states, for harboring pilfered assets; and stiff sanctions helped convince Libya to disavow terrorism after the 1988 Lockerbie jetliner bombing. But those are generally the exceptions. "Putting a sanction on a country always seems to be an inexpensive way to address the problem," Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana has said. "Unfortunately, almost none of these sanctions have brought about change." That's particularly the case when they?re leveled unilaterally. A 1997 study by the Institute for International Economics found that since 1970, unilateral U.S. sanctions met their stated goals less than 20% of the time, while costing...
...Foreign Relations chairman that Kerry has become most influential. A relationship with Syrian President Bashar Assad, forged in 2005, helped Kerry play the key role in thawing U.S.-Syrian relations after the White House renewed Bush-era sanctions on Damascus in May. With Lugar, he shepherded a $1.5 billion nonmilitary-aid package to Pakistan last spring. His support is also vital to Obama's surge strategy in Afghanistan; though he voted to send more troops earlier this year, Kerry now wonders whether the Administration has a clear agenda there. "I'm very concerned about Afghanistan's footprint," he says...
...Kerry's leading the negotiations. And as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, he has stepped out overseas - and across the aisle in the Senate - to get things done. In a town where second acts are rare, Kerry, 65, has found a new groove. "I think," Republican Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana says, "at least as I have watched him, he does have a great deal more vigor and enthusiasm...
...battle will play out on Capitol Hill is still uncertain. The ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations committee, Indiana's Richard Lugar, is as traditional a conservative as they come, and though he hasn't decided, says an aide, "He always has an inclination in favor of an Administration's pick." Younger members of the committee are on the fence. Bob Corker of Tennessee has been sober in the face of outrage over the International Monetary Fund's use of currency reserves to stabilize the global financial system, a favorite Beck bugaboo. Johnny Isakson of Georgia has an unperturbably conservative...
...domestic political constraints, including the staunch opposition of Cuban-American pols like New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez and Florida Senator Mel Martinez to the bill that would end the travel ban. But even they know momentum is building inside the Beltway, as prominent Senators like Indiana's Richard Lugar now argue that the Cuban embargo has been a failure. Obama didn't need the once indispensable Cuban-American vote to win Florida's critical electoral votes in last year's presidential race, and the Cuban-American Foundation - a once hard-line exile group in Miami - issued a white paper last...