Word: musts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have blood on their hands. To argue who is more culpable--to see whether sanctions are stifling resistance to oppression or creating it--is, in the end, missing the point. The people in Iraq will suffer and die while negotiations continue back and forth. As responsible human beings, we must ask if an open-ended international game of chicken is what is best for our fellow human beings unlucky enough to live in Iraq...
...work with that leader? It is probably a faux-pas beyond even the smoothest of diplomats to simultaneously vow to remove a nation's leaders and then invite them over for tea and deal-making. Perhaps this is the most important lesson from the corrosive experience of Iraq, we must be careful not to cut connections with powerful despots, for they may be our only chance to help their nation's people. As we stare into the eyes of Slobodan Milosevic today, and the leaders of Indonesia, Pakistan, North Korea or China tomorrow, we cannot overestimate the power...
...palpable tyrannical manner is, obviously, not without its faults. The failed policy of appeasement has left a long shadow: 60 years ago this month Great Britain and France learned that working with Hitler and overlooking violations of international law might mean helping to ensure their own demise. Clearly, discretion must be used to know when and how negotiation will work and when it is simply too late...
...There must be a delicate balance, a distinction between being a source of international justice and merely policing based on one's own agenda. American foreign policy over the past decade, and through it the actions of the United Nations have been frighteningly stopgap, often forced to make ultimatums when a situation springs full-form onto the international stage as a crisis no longer waiting to happen...
There will be no easy answers to such a complex question. International regulation and monitoring must play a greater role, and regional organization must be empowered to resolve some of these issues on a smaller scale. The future will hold the opportunity to learn the lessons of failed policies in the world's current stalemates...