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...presidents and their administrations have been hopelessly inactive in intervening to aid the Bosnians. It is incomprehensible that George Bush, the same leader who invaded Panama and fought the Gulf war, could not even order air strikes on Serbian military targets or militarily enforce the no-fly zone...
...exhibit at Dudley House concentrates on these works, most of which include unusual found objects and shards of ancient pottery. "Our Lady of the Seas" incorporates shells that the artist's daughter collected for her on a Panama beach. "Thirty Pieces of Silver," as the title suggests, highlights coins surrounding a cross, representing the sum of money for which Judas betrayed Jesus...
However, the overpowering post-Vietnam commitment "not to do anything halfway" seemed to carry the day, and half a million soldiers found themselves halfway around the world. You might remember some of the Bush and Reagan Duo's greatest executive order hits: Grenada, Panama, and Beirut...
...Vance plan would let the Bosnians do that within a largely ceremonial and insubstantial Bosnian state. Yet there is much grumbling in the U.S. about Vance. Those who worshipped him when his State Department was negotiating away American control of the Panama Canal now find him insufficiently zealous in ; defending Muslim interests in Bosnia...
...procession of interventions, from Korea to Vietnam to Grenada. Having triumphed in its global struggle with the Soviets, the U.S. gained the opportunity to put more emphasis on its ideals than on its interests. But so far, it has mainly focused on the latter. American troops went into Panama to stem the flow of drugs and into Kuwait to protect the flow of oil -- vital national interests indeed. In both cases, President Bush stressed America's moral motivations. But James Baker made the gaffe (defined as a politician's accidentally telling the truth) of admitting that the reason for going...