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...revival of the United Nations has led to a proliferation of peacekeeping and nation-building operations in places like Somalia, Cambodia, Angola and El Salvador. These are often long term operations that have social or political goals rather than military ones; they focus, not on vanquishing an enemy, but on rebuilding societies. Still, these U.N. operations often involve some military presence, and forces are still necessary both for general security and for providing occasional muscle...
...clear that Powell could swallow this responsibility. He has a clear history of opposing U.S. commitments abroad, from the Gulf War to Somalia and Bosnia. His opposition appears to stem from the trauma of Vietnam; he is determined not to let an ill-advised deployment hurt the military, an institution to which, in the words of The New York Times, he has a "mystical attachment...
...Somalia was supposed to prove that intervention could be simple. A year ago, as many as 1,000 Somalis a day were dying of starvation while feuding warlords stole relief supplies. Operation Restore Hope quickly restored the flow of foodstuffs and choked off most banditry. Starvation has all but ended. Refugees are returning. In most of the country, order now prevails. Washington has reduced its contingent from 28,000 to 4,800 soldiers. Says retired U.S. Admiral Jonathan Howe, the U.N.'s special representative in Somalia: "A lot more work needs to be done. But the story of Somalia...
...troops immediately, leaving the work of nation building to other U.N. members. The TIME/CNN poll shows that only 22% of the public think the U.S. should engage in disarming the warlords. But Clinton advisers fear the whole U.N. mission would collapse if the U.S. military backbone were withdrawn, returning Somalia to anarchy and famine. "Our sense is to keep picking away one lieutenant here, one bunch of militiamen there," says a Clinton official. "If we keep up the pressure, we'll eventually get there...
...Administration hopes its blizzard of foreign-policy speeches will help direct public attention away from the bloodshed in Somalia and Bosnia toward its accomplishments in other regions -- propping up Boris Yeltsin, for example. Top officials worry, as Lake says, that "we have come into the new era with relatively few ways to convince a skeptical public that engagement abroad is a worthwhile investment." But there is no sidestepping the hard cases. If Washington is to remain a superpower, the public will have to bear not only comparatively light burdens like democratic "enlargement" but onerous ones like Somalia and Bosnia...