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Moral issues can--and should--play a role in determining foreign policy initiatives in the post-cold war era. But the mere existence of moral issues are not enough to always justify military intervention. Moral wrongs and human rights abuses exist all over the globe. The cost (such as a nuclear war) should at times deter us from intervening, even when the offenses are egregious (as in Joseph Stalin's murder of some 20 million Ukranians as the result of his collectivization plan). In this case, we judge the moral wrongs in Serbia to outweigh the cost of righting them...
...decision to invite Powell "had something to do with the particular demands of helping to shape foreign policy in the post-Cold War period," Rudenstine said. "He was certainly not invited to speak about the question of sexual orientation and military service...
...lack of a strong economy to rebuild on. Los Angeles remains mired in a three-year recession, with a countywide 10.4% unemployment rate, 3 1/2 points higher than the U.S. average. In poor black neighborhoods, the rate is as high as 50%. The peace dividend of the post-cold war era has landed like a bomb in the Los Angeles area, wiping out 110,000 defense-industry jobs so far and possibly another 50,000 more by the end of next year. Many manufacturing jobs, which supported the city's working class, have evaporated because of corporate cutbacks...
...military keenly anxious about its shrinking role in the post-cold war era, every presidential gesture is dissected and analyzed, sometimes absurdly so. It grates that Clinton has spent only one weekend at Camp David, the presidential retreat run by the Navy. Military officers charge that Clinton has fewer veterans on his staff than any President in memory. Then there are the rumored slights, both real and imagined: a woman believed to be a member of the White House staff refused to speak to a top aide of Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell (true); Chelsea Clinton refused a military escort...
...private farmland and doses of medicine and people-to- people exchanges. The two Presidents spent most of their time discussing how best to stabilize and begin mending the crippled Russian economy, largely through transfusions from the U.S. and other developed democracies that Clinton views as a form of post-cold war self-interest. Said Clinton: "The kinds of things we propose to do are likely to have lasting and tangible impact...