Word: warlords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...FRANJO TUDJMAN is trying to do is to free the Krajina region totally from the Serbian army of occupation [Croatia, March 20]. Let's not forget the U.S.'s own history, when colonists were compelled to deal with the British in exactly the same manner. To tag Tudjman a warlord is to imply that the "Father of Our Country," George Washington, was not a Founding Father but just another vain warlord...
...settlement may be Tudjman's vanity. The 72-year-old Croat yearns to be recognized as a world statesman--not a mere regional warlord--and he has a chance to play that role this week in a visit to Washington. In public, the State Department is providing him with a place of honor during ceremonies marking the first anniversary of a Croat-Muslim federation in Bosnia...
Ironically, it is an excessive fear of casualties that has painted that mark on our soldiers abroad. The pattern was set in Somalia. There, a disgruntled warlord who didn't like the direction of the American operation arranged several ambushes in which United Nations soldiers where killed. When American troops pursued his forces, he struck at them, leaving a dozen Rangers dead...
...casualties completely turned the American commitment on its head. Rather than aggressively pursuing the warlord, as was stated policy, the Americans drew back, startled. Magazines splashed pictures of dead Americans across their covers, and the Clinton administration seemed as shocked as anyone. Within a few weeks, American participation in the Somalia operation was severely curtailed. Just a few weeks ago, the last Americans left and the warlords now are free again to wreak havoc on their society...
Seven months later Clinton stunned some of the victims' families when he told them during an Oval Office meeting that he was surprised the soldiers were trying to apprehend warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid. By then, he said, the U.S. was supposed to be emphasizing diplomacy over confrontation. "When the President has troops in combat, that must be his No. 1 priority, and he must be fully aware of what they're doing," Larry Joyce, whose son died in the fire fight, told TIME recently...