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...During the Clinton years, we tried foreign policy as social work in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia and Kosovo. But that was during the dreamtime between the end of the cold war and 9/11. Today with the war on terrorism engaging us on every continent, with daily attacks on Americans in Baghdad and with international terrorists gathering in Iraq to make their stand - and test our resolve - we must husband our resources and sharpen our focus. Of course, we are prepared to give relief aid for humanitarian missions in places like Liberia. But is that a job for the U.S. military...
...massacre. The Dutch peacekeepers who failed to act in Bosnia did not have adequate support or a mandate from the five permanent members of the Security Council--and the U.S. did not push for additional resources. And it is difficult to blame the U.N. for the failed mission in Somalia, which was composed mainly of American forces led by Americans, when non-American "blue helmets" became involved only in the process of withdrawal. WILLIAM LUERS, PRESIDENT UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION New York City...
...anything in the 1990s, it was surely that the U.N. doesn't work miracles. You don't bring peace to a violent land just by sending in a multinational force wearing blue helmets. True, some missions have been successful, like the Australian-led stabilization of East Timor. But from Somalia, where a humanitarian effort turned into a doomed attempt at nation building; to Rwanda, where U.N. forces failed to prevent a genocide, despite ample warnings that it was coming; to Bosnia, where the Dutch component of a peacekeeping contingent stood by while thousands of Bosnian Muslims were slaughtered in Srebrenica...
...prevent genocide in Rwanda almost a decade ago, the same people remember well what happened the last time a President Bush sent U.S. troops into Africa. To this day, the military is haunted by the memory of the 18 soldiers who were killed in the 1993 mission to stabilize Somalia. General Richard B. Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a congressional hearing last week that Liberia "is not a pretty situation, and it's not going to give way to any instant...
...welfare of the world but quite another to interfere in another country's affairs. If Americans must play global watchdog, they might as well let the occupied nation do its own work. The images portrayed in your report were sad reminders of the mission that went bad in Mogadishu, Somalia, in 1993. Haven't Americans seen enough? How long will they allow their countrymen to suffer at the hands of the Iraqis? As long as the U.S. exerts its authority in other countries, it will certainly be unwelcome. It's time to use less force and more diplomacy in achieving...