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...read with great interest and sadness Charles Krauthammer's commentary "The Clinton Doctrine" [ESSAY, April 5], in which he quoted a foreign policy expert's description of managing the "teacup wars" of the world and the "uncivil civil wars" of nation-states. The interest came from its facts and logic, the sadness from the doctrine's "highfalutin moral principles [that] are impossible guides to foreign policy" and the inevitable wavering between the deplorable poles of hypocrisy and naivete. After reflection, however, I find that both President Clinton and Krauthammer are correct. The Kosovo affair seems like the pursuit of knowledge...
...approach to the world perhaps best enunciated by Leslie Gelb, president of the Council on Foreign Relations. In 1994, Gelb wrote that America's "main strategic challenge" in the world was no longer dealing with Russia or China or Germany or trade or loose nukes. It was managing the "teacup wars" of the world, "wars of national debilitation, a steady run of uncivil civil wars sundering fragile but functioning nation-states...
...hospital may be the most fascinating place we never want to visit. We know there are triumphs here: fingers reattached, lungs replaced and babies born, small enough to bathe in a big teacup, who would have had no chance 10 years ago but who now go home and grow up. Maybe they will become doctors too. But it is also a war zone, and if you are not fighting the enemy or loading the weapons or plotting the next campaign, you can hardly understand what a brave, brutal, mysterious place this really...
...they seem to ignore right and wrong), most also say those concepts aren't well developed for kids under 10. Kyle Pruett, a professor of clinical psychiatry at the Yale Child Study Center, illustrates this point with a test: "Tell a seven- or eight-year-old, 'Johnny broke one teacup throwing it at his sister. Sara broke eight teacups helping Dad load the dishwasher. Which kid did the worse thing?' The average seven-year-old will pick Sara because she broke more. By 11, they have it sorted out that intentionality is part of the moral system. Not when...
...TOPEKA, KANS. No alcohol in a teacup...