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Russia is using an obsolete tactic, inhumane means, and is all the while tainting its credibility as a responsible power. By all counts, Russia should be receiving strong messages from the U.S. government...
...assault on Grozny, Russian troops have nearly encircled the city and warned the bloodshed would intensify unless the Chechen forces give up. But Chechnya's President Dzhokhar Dudayev, a former Soviet air force general, decided to play chicken. Russian forces "will be attacked from the rear in a traditional tactic of mountaineers: hit and run, hit and run, which will exhaust them until they, out of fear and terror, give up," he said on Russian...
...legal and rhetorical overemphasis on race in the past generation (busing, affirmative action, quotas, punitive political correctness) has ended by compounding the oldest American melodrama. What should have been, at most, a temporary tactic (like Lincoln getting Congress to suspend habeas corpus during the Civil War) has become a permanent installation of bad principle -- a way of life...
...weeks ago, he sent Clinton a letter threatening to give the Administration's foreign policy a rough ride for the next two years unless the President deferred the vote on the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade to the new session of Congress. A Senate aide likened the tactic to "kidnapping a child and sending a ransom note even though you plan to kill the kid anyway...
...need for the animal's musk gland, has probably gone as far to save endangered musk deer as an army of environmentalists. It is not difficult to see how international cooperation in developing substitutes for products from endangered wildlife and subsidizing their use could become a highly effective tactic. Unfortunately, the focus is almost entirely on the supply side of the problem, which, as in the drug trade, is only half of the story...