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Successive American administrations helped Mexico not because they had drunk of the milk of human kindness but because it was in their interests to do so. Economic turmoil in Mexico would have spilled north of the border, just as polluted water and diseases do. For Clinton, especially, it was axiomatic that the U.S. could not be immune to economic, environmental or health crises elsewhere in the world--that such "soft" issues posed as real a danger to American interests as "hard" ones like terrorism. "People looked askance," Clinton told me last week, "when we said that AIDS and other diseases...
...turmoil of Saturday’s sweep at Dartmouth, one thought kept Harvard confident going into yesterday...
...candidates dodge what will be the key question, both for the primary contest and the matchup of a nominee against a formidable incumbent President: Do the Democrats have anything to offer? A sour economy at home (weekly unemployment claims rose 8,000 to 455,000 last week) and turmoil overseas could make the odds considerably better for the Democrats next year. But it's an outside shot - not to mention an unseemly hope - to count on bad news alone to carry a Democrat all the way to the White House. And unlike his father, this President Bush is not going...
...this stage, such an approach would be misguided. As Fred Barnes pointed out in the Weekly Standard last summer, the only times Castro’s made real concessions on emigration and liberalization in the past 44 years have been when a mixture of domestic economic turmoil and American pressure forced him to. The 1965 arrangement for Cuban Americans to rescue their family members on a designated beach, the Mariel boatlift of 1980, the (admittedly minimal) free-market reforms of the 1990’s—the catalyst for all these actions was the U.S., not the regime...
...while still giving his staff freedom. “It’s boring to cook the same thing over and over again. Part of keeping it fresh and lively is about constant change.” He explains, “There is always a sense of creative turmoil that forces us out of the routine. We are always moving forwards...