Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Another age, another presidency, another trumpet. Bill Clinton declared in his Inaugural Address that America will act "with force when necessary" to protect its "vital interests." But he did not stop there. He then pledged American action when "the will and conscience of the international community is defied...
This declaration was greeted as a breakthrough, a new vision of America in the post-cold war world. A breakthrough it is. And a dangerous one. It is getting us into Bosnia where, despite convoluted attempts at fashioning some rationale based on some vital American interest, everyone knows we are going in for reasons of conscience...
...Serbs overrun Bosnia. It was pointed out that the gutless wimp took half a million Americans to war to liberate Kuwait. "Yes," replied Lewis triumphantly, "he did because of oil, O-I-L, the famous three- letter word." Any wimp, you see, can go to war for some vital national interest. Real men go to war for reasons of right...
...such a dangerous arena, thinking with one's heart is a serious offense. Foreign policy is not social work. Yes, we should risk war when our will and conscience are challenged. But only when our most vital interests are challenged...
...always been a teaching organization. The people in the organization have always functioned both as professionals and mentors," he says. "Our desire to continue to be an evolving and vital organization really depended on there being young people around...