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...wouldn't have written the book." McNamara points to the dangers of underestimating nationalism, of faulty evaluations, of asking the military to achieve more than weapons can deliver. The nation worries through that sort of list every time it sends its troops abroad, to Grenada or Panama or Somalia, fearing that the intervention may turn into "another Vietnam." But wars do not repeat themselves; each arises from a unique set of circumstances. The forces that led the U.S. to fight in Vietnam at all, and in the manner that it did, have changed forever. Another Vietnam is as likely...
...LIST OF LARA MARLOWE'S DATELINES since she joined TIME in 1989 reads like a gazetteer of the globe's hot spots: Kuwait, Iraq, Bosnia, the Gaza Strip, Azerbaijan, Somalia, Zaire and, for the sixth time, Algeria. Her story this week on the fierce struggle between the Islamic fundamentalists and the Algerian government is a rare and gripping look at a nation many feel is the most dangerous in the world, especially for Westerners...
Singing as they sailed from Mogadishu under escort by U.S. and Italian troops, 903 Bangladeshi soldiers ended their frustrating U.N. peacekeeping tour in Somalia. The remaining U.N. contingent of 1,500 Pakistanis is scheduled to depart Thursday, the last of a 38,000-strong force that failed to establish a democratic government. Once the peacekeepers are gone, the country's warring clans are expected to fight over the Mogadishu's air and sea ports. The Somali people, meanwhile, will fend for themselves. "All of us hoped against hope the Somalis would get their house in order" by now, Joint Chiefs...
...what this whole sorry mess is all about. ``It's just a few hundred folks trying to figure out how to divide nearly $2 billion,'' said the President plaintively. ``They ought to be able to do that.'' Clinton obviously didn't understand that the baseball strike is like Somalia: simple on the outside, a quagmire once you're in. Labor Secretary Robert Reich, who enjoyed a cushy teaching gig before moving inside the Beltway, seems similarly at sea. ``I've never seen this degree of animosity,'' said Reich. ``I can't explain it.'' Well, listen, Mr. Secretary...
Robinson said he fears that Americans suffer from a "McDonald Syndrome" When reacting to disasters in such places as Haiti, Somalia and Ethiopia. He suggested that American too easily accept pre-packaged information from the media and fail to understand the historical causes of social problems...