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...1980s the issue was usually whether Congress was trying to "micromanage" foreign-policy issues short of actually sending in the troops. By 1991, however, President Bush could claim with a straight face that he didn't need congressional approval for Operation Desert Storm: a deliberate, unhurried, post-cold war decision to start...
President Clinton faces the challenge of creating a post-cold war foreign policy. He seems to want it to be activist, including the possibility of military action in support of democracy and human rights. Especially given his own lack of military experience, he should be happy to abandon any claim to the right to commit U.S. troops unilaterally (except in genuine emergencies) -- a right he does not possess under the Constitution in any event...
...envoy to Somalia Robert B. Oakley's declaration that the U.S. had fulfilled its goals in Somalia and was now ready to leave is a welcome beginning to what we hope will be our post-Cold War foreign policy. The announcement was followed by a promise this Thursday by UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali that as of May 1, the Americans will no longer be running the show in Somalia. U.S. forces will be replaced by a bonafide UN force, of which American troops will comprise no more than a quarter...
...Balkans have become a sort of Bermuda Triangle into which human decencies vanish without a trace. In the post-cold war era, it is unsettling to think that conscienceless tribal ferocity may catch on around the world. Rape, of course, has been an apparently inevitable part of war since men first threw rocks at each other -- or anyway since Rome was founded upon the rape of the Sabines. Joseph Stalin expressed a prevailing (male victor's) view of rape in war. When Yugoslav Milovan Djilas complained about the rapes that Russians had committed in Yugoslavia, Stalin replied...
...United States has not adjusted its foreign policy to the different parameters of a post-Cold War world, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) and editor Irving Kristol said yesterday...