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Clinton's decision to send a former president and a former Head of the Joint Chiefs to Port-au-Prince last week to negotiate a peaceful settlement with the Haitian junta ought to raise serious questions about the uses and abuses of American diplomatic initiative...
...think probably the ideal ought to come from a combination of the government and the private sector," Gaintner says. "The private sector benefits from our activities as well...
...these uncertainties will be cleared up quickly or easily. The fact that environmentalists and a group of concerned scientists have raised the issue of endangered fertility is likely to spur much-needed research. The evidence so far may not be strong enough to support sweeping government action, but it ought to prompt some companies to consider whether there are practical, economical ways to reduce their emissions of suspect chemicals...
Administration officials pondering a military campaign in Haiti ought to be poring over the Pentagon's classified reports detailing what went wrong in Somalia. When the last U.S. official and his 59 Marine bodyguards leave Mogadishu this week, the U.S. will be abandoning a failed investment of $1.3 billion and 44 American lives. Two still secret postmortems spell out how the humane mission to feed starving Somalis degenerated into a guerrilla war that has left the country little better off than it was before the U.S. intervened...
...Given the size and scope of the task, it's very impressive, very thorough, very carefully wrought and considered," Rudenstine said. "It will certainly stand as a very important document which will need thoughtful consideration for quite a bit. It's something that ought to be chewed over for a while...