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...will immediately take on the duties of his new job. He is responsible for crafting policy on all regional security issues, including American involvement with Bosnia, Somalia, Haiti and other hot spots...
Administration officials pondering a military campaign in Haiti ought to be poring over the Pentagon's classified reports detailing what went wrong in Somalia. When the last U.S. official and his 59 Marine bodyguards leave Mogadishu this week, the U.S. will be abandoning a failed investment of $1.3 billion and 44 American lives. Two still secret postmortems spell out how the humane mission to feed starving Somalis degenerated into a guerrilla war that has left the country little better off than it was before the U.S. intervened...
...confirmed, Nye will head the Defense Department's "little State Department," taking responsibility for defense dealings with all other areas of the world, including Bosnia, Somalia, Haiti and North Korea...
...last pre-invasion essential -- the President's green light -- is not so certain. He knows an invasion would be unpopular: people questioned in the TIME/CNN poll were against it, 58% to 30%. Opposition could intensify if U.S. troops, after a quick and cheap initial victory, got bogged down Somalia-style in a long, fruitless and possibly bloody job of "nation building." At some point, though, Clinton may lose his last hope of scaring Cedras into quitting and find that he either has to order the troops into action or look like a fool making threats that cannot be believed...
Considering the "compassion fatigue" of the United States and other nations, armed intervention is unlikely and wisely unadvised. The failure of similar missions in Bosnia, Somalia, and Ethiopia have lead to and illustrate the limits of potency and the limites of US willpower. With luck and hard work, the conditions will improve and disaster will be averted, but the situation will not be resolved. Sadly the Rwandan situation will linger...