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Sanctions are a fashion, rising or falling like hemlines, depending on who's running things in Washington. Bill Clinton's reflexive faith in their efficacy is hardly surprising, since he is the No. 1 proponent of the post-cold war's leading fallacy: economic might counts far more than military clout. The quintessential domestic President, Clinton sees everyone as he sees Americans: as bourgeois consumers whose behavior is driven by economic concerns. The idea that bad guys are interested only in raw power, and dissuaded only by countervailing power, seems lost on him. At this rate, Clinton may soon echo...
...root, the problem is not personalities but ideas. Even the most skilled statesman would flounder if lashed to the central idea of the Clinton foreign policy: that in the post-cold war era the U.S. can shed its arduous international responsibilities by transferring them to the U.N. or sundry other multilateral constructions. The subordination of America to the will of "the allies," or the U.N. Secretary-General, or the even vaguer notion of the "international community" provides a convenient alibi for failure. But it is also a near guarantee of failure and a source of endless, needless humbling...
Without a doubt, the first post-cold war President has an exceptionally difficult job navigating the new global currents. But many critics question whether Clinton has really tried to construct his own coherent approach to the world. Richard Lugar, probably the Republican Senator best informed on foreign affairs, identifies what may turn out to be a fatal void. "There is not an idea on the part of the President that there are overriding principles that are important," he says. "And the President does not envision himself as the leader of the free world...
...changed. The U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, which is struggling to recover from a major cheating scandal, will host a discussion this month aptly titled "Service Academies: Leadership Crucibles or Magnificent Anachronisms?" All the academies are suffering from declining enrollment and struggling to develop a curriculum suitable to the post-cold war era. By doing so, however, they risk losing the very thing that set them apart. Last week a cadet at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point acknowledged that the school is no longer a rigid temple of martial arts and science. "I expected a very military environment...
...post-cold war consolidation of the U.S. defense industry intensified with a bidding war to purchase the ailing Grumman Corp., one of the most venerable names in military aviation. Martin Marietta's announcement of a $1.9 billion deal to acquire Grumman was followed by a $2 billion offer from Northrop. As the buyout battle unfolded, the sec launched an insider-trading investigation into heavy stock and option trading of Grumman shares that occurred just before Martin Marietta announced its move...