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During the post-Saigon years, the Vietnam syndrome was conventional wisdom among our political and cultural elites. It held that Americans wouldn’t support moralistic or strategic military intervention if it proved too costly in American lives. The Vietnam syndrome evolved into its post-Cold War form on the streets of Mogadishu. The domestic outrage that ensued convinced Bill Clinton that public opinion would inevitably revolt against any nation-building effort—or any war at all—at the first sign of casualties. This concern echoed throughout his presidency. It led to his ordering...
...task force, announced Monday, comes in response to mounting concern from policymakers that dissension over war in Iraq as well as post-Cold War political realities have pushed the longtime allies apart...
This latest venture, a seven-part series called “The Whole Wide World,” is ambitious in scope, striving to “decode the riddles of the new race, the new map, the post-Cold War 21st century...
...Dean Acheson famously said, "Britain has lost an empire but has not yet found a role." France too lost an empire but has found its role: giant killer. Remaker of the post-cold war world. Leader of the global anti-American camp...
...senior, Erlich has had to juggle his business with his Government thesis on leftist movements in the post-Cold War era, focusing on Haiti. Sometimes, these priorities conflict—like this summer, when he contracted a mosquito-borne disease called dengue fever in Haiti and suffered severe headaches, chills, vomiting and muscle cramps. Erlich stayed home in Oakland, Calif. for the first two weeks of school. “It’s not treatable, so you just kind of have to grin and bear it,” he says. “It’s such...