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...Fein, the political arm of the IRA, can come to the table, it must first deliver a halt to the recent rash of IRA bombings. It will be up to Sinn Fein, which probably did not know about the bombings in London this month, to convince the IRA to uphold a cease-fire. The IRA resumed bombings on February 9 after feeling that the peace negotiations were not moving along fast enough. "Although the negotiations will resume," adds Hillenbrand, "it will be a long and complicated process...
Here's an except from one such man's Web page, advocating different methods of civil disobedience should the courts uphold...
Back in September 1994, when Bill Clinton itemized his intentions for Haiti, he kept them basic, so now he can tick off the accomplishments. The main goal of Operation Uphold Democracy was to restore the legitimate Haitian President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to power and in so doing halt the flood of boat people. With 20,000 U.S. troops and a little help from Jimmy Carter, Clinton did it. Objective No. 2 was achieved last week when Rene Preval took the presidential oath and Haiti experienced its first-ever peaceful transfer of power from one popularly elected leader to another...
Operation Uphold Democracy, says a U.S. diplomat, is a model "only for the national war college: exit strategy as diplomacy." If the U.S. will not engage in nation building, he believes, "it's just pasting on Band-Aids." Johns Hopkins Professor Michael Mandelbaum has recently written in Foreign Affairs that lasting democracy requires the firm foundation of law and a functioning market economy. Haiti needed a "deep, protracted and costly engagement" that American politics today will not tolerate, he argues, and so Clinton's achievements in Haiti can only be judged "provisional, fragile and reversible." The intervention may have been...
...still bumping into him. The woman who described me as "sort of surly and condescending (but a good teacher)"? We visit the MAC at the same time, Monday, Wednesday and Friday. This invariably makes for strained conversation, since the TF, however wounded, has an obligation to uphold the fiction of anonymity...