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...SOMALIA, SAYS ANA LIRIA Franch, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees representative in Angola, "the country's strong are eating its weak." In Malanje government employees steal and sell medical supplies intended for the hospital. Bandits have been making off with an estimated third of the U.N.'s food aid as soon as it hits the ports. There is profiteering in the refugee camps by local chiefs appointed as middlemen in the food-distribution chain. "Given the hardships of everyday life here, they don't see anything wrong with what they are doing," says a relief official...
Americans, obsessed today with the image of a soldier's pale body dragged through the streets of Mogadishu, will find the power struggle in Russia a bigger worry in the long run. After the U.S. is out of Somalia, Yeltsin's foes will still be everywhere in Russia. The atavistic forces may have lost last week, but they will reorganize and wait for another opportunity...
...pieces of your plan till you accomplish your goals." But consistency and constancy, the critical prerequisites to the successful pursuit of any policy, are missing abroad. Why? It may be that Clinton's foreign and defense policy team is second-rate, judging from its performance in Somalia. Or it may be that a President whose interest flags at the water's edge is simply a slave to public and congressional opinion when he lacks his own clear bearings. Still, it is possible to understand where consistency and constancy would lead if the Administration were functioning properly overseas. Consider some current...
...SOMALIA Now that Defense Secretary Les Aspin has said the March 31, 1994, withdrawal date of U.S. troops is "etched in stone," there is little doubt Somalia will revert to the ruinous state that inspired America's intervention in the first place. But a policy that truly cared about ends would be open- ended. However one defines the Somali mission, Clinton's desire to finish it "in the right way" ought to mean staying until the possibility of reversion is more than just "reasonably" foreclosed. Seeking an exit strategy before sailing in harm's way is smart, but it must...
...definitely still an option." But the State Department insists that the increased U.S. troop presence is merely meant to protect the forces already there, and Clinton has signaled a willingness to negotiate rather than kill Aidid. "We have no interest in denying anybody access to playing a role in Somalia's political future," the President said last Friday. That's exactly wrong, says Henry Kissinger, who argues that failing to strike back at the forces that struck Americans virtually guarantees that the wrong lesson will be learned. The world's other mischief-makers will have no fear, says Kissinger, until...