Word: nato
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pullout itself could blow up into a multinational nightmare involving U.S. troops on the ground. U.S.-backed plans for safely removing the 12,000 U.N. peacekeepers call for deploying 50,000 NATO troops, about half of them American. Pentagon officials say they would send units of NATO's Rapid Reaction Corps to join U.S. Marines and carrier-based aircraft to assist with the pullout. About half the U.S. contingent would actually go ashore, a prospect that appalls some congressional leaders. "Despite all the rhetoric that we would not have troops on the ground, they will be on the ground," complains...
...Russia reverts to its traditional expansionist policies, in the absence of NATO, a nationalist state will be tempted to extend its control into the power vacuum to the west. But if the U.S. extends its security guarantees to the Czechs, Slovaks, Poles and Hungarians, Russia will find Eastern Europe more than it can swallow...
...other hand, if democratization in Russia is successful, the NATO alliance will eventually expand through the former republics of the Soviet Union and dissolve into a relatively benign, functionally impotent collective security framework...
However, the worst mistake Clinton could make would be to use the "Partnership for Peace" as a permanent substitute for NATO's expansion. Having two classes of security guarantees would likely make the partnership a vague and ineffective alliance. At the same time, the prospect of western expansion would still inflame Russian nationalists...
...NATO must expand to the east, choosing its allies from the most stable of the new democracies. While Yeltsin may disagree, the U.S. should assure him, "It's nothing personal...