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...partly in his overeagerness to avoid "a Vietnam-like quagmire" that Bush so abruptly suspended Desert Storm. As a result, Saddam Hussein remained in power to slaughter his citizens and rebuild his military. Thus the continuing fixation on the V word has figured decisively in the two great foreign policy failures of the Bush Administration: it was too quick to end the Gulf War, and it has been too slow to mobilize a multinational intervention that might end the Balkan...
...which explains the gyrations in Washington last week. One day a senior State Department official testified that economic sanctions against Serbia were working fine; two days later, after Bill Clinton said Bush should "do whatever it takes to stop the slaughter of civilians," the President was driven to announce a flurry of new measures -- full diplomatic recognition of Slovenia and Bosnia, international monitoring of Balkan borders and a call for a U.N. resolution authorizing force to deliver humanitarian aid -- but hardly enough to frighten away Milosevic and his henchmen...
...months, the mythical Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse -- Conquest, Slaughter, Famine and Death -- have run wild in Somalia. After 19 months of war and a long drought, 1.5 million of the country's estimated 6 million people face imminent starvation. Only an urgent plea by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali prompted the U.N. Security Council to authorize a broad plan to break the stranglehold that armed factions have on the African nation. Under its terms, if the Somalis refuse to accept a U.N. force to protect supplies and relief workers, the U.N. "would not exclude other means" of carrying...
...Kuwait. But one parallel to Vietnam looks ominous: limited military actions succeed but the civil war goes on, so the U.S. and friends are drawn step by step into more extensive fighting. Or the allied forces might impose an uneasy truce but then be unable to leave lest the slaughter resume. Says John Steinbruner, director of international studies at the Washington-based Brookings Institution: "This has all the earmarks of Northern Ireland," where British troops have fought for more than 20 years...
...immediate cause of the breakdown was the A.N.C.'s indignation over the particularly pitiless slaughter of 42 people in Boipatong, near Johannesburg. Discontent has grown intense in A.N.C. ranks over the ceaseless violence. When Mandela visited Boipatong last week, he and his entourage were taunted by a song that included the lyrics: "While they kill our people, you behave like lambs...