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...last 20 years, American foreign policy has suffered from an indelible stigma. Whenever the United States sends forces abroad as peace-keepers, oil-preservers, or dictator-removers, politicos and pundits with long memories groan about "another Vietnam." Well, there isn't going to be another Vietnam in Bosnia or Somalia or even East Timor--things have changed...
...case, the U.S. has not been tinkering with situations in Bosnia and Somalia in order to stem a Marxist tide. If anything, despots Milosevic and Aidid stray toward the other, fascist end of the political spectrum. But the other facet of the war in Vietnam--the U.S.'s long, intractable involvement--does merit some fear of repetition...
...solutions have failed to take hold. Bosnians, Serbs and Croats will not reconcile their centuries-old differences unless controlled by force. Let force again take from these people the freedom to fight for the good of the civilians, if any remain alive. And if the same becomes necessary in Somalia...
...SOMALIA SECESSION...
...that finding is true, Clinton is on the edge of a major, long-term foreign crisis that could make Somalia and Haiti look like the small skirmishes they really were. He will have to decide how to make good his pledge -- not only to keep the North Koreans from producing nuclear weapons but also to take away any they might have built and hidden. The solutions are neither easy nor obvious. Proposals for U.N. economic sanctions probably would be blocked in the Security Council by China, Korea's next-door neighbor, which considers such pressure unacceptable. Clinton might be tempted...