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10-12-2006 08:44 AM |
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Originally Posted by mrnoodle
If we had been at war, you would have been hard-pressed to find a Republican trying to undermine the efforts of the commander in chief, at least until the thing was won. That's my opinion, at least.
Not that we would have stuck around long enough to win. Somalia, anyone?
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I disagree with you. The way I remember it, when Clinton was planning on protecting innocent victims in Kosovo from ethinic cleansing, the repubicans were critical:
August 12, 1998
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As examined in this paper, the Clinton Administration's drift toward armed intervention in Kosovo bears striking similarities to the ad hoc decision-making that led to the Bosnia intervention beginning in 1995 and which, on a broader scale, has become the hallmark of the Clinton foreign policy. These similarities include:
The framing of a highly complex ethnic conflict, with historical roots and conflicting equities extending back hundreds of years, in grossly simplistic terms in order to justify intervention in a region few Americans know (or care) anything about (NOTE: Details on Kosovo's geography and complex history, including a discussion of the politically charged implications of the variant spellings Kosovo and Kosova, are found in the attached Appendix);
An almost total lack of clarity and coherence as to the outcome the Administration's policy is designed to produce, as well as how that outcome serves the national interest of the United States; and
As in Bosnia, an unacknowledged reliance by the Clinton Administration on the cooperation of the person publicly blamed for most of the violence: Slobodan Milosevic himself.
It is imperative that Congress compel the Clinton Administration honestly to address these flaws in its policy before U.S. forces are committed to Kosovo. Indeed, the fact that comparable questions were not answered with respect to the Bosnia deployment (and in most cases still have not been answered) is one reason the Bosnia operation has now become precisely what the Administration promised Congress and the American people it would not be: an ill-defined, open-ended nation-building project -- with no end in sight.
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And all the while were attacking him at home with more than nasty name-calling.
August 17, 1998:
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President Bill Clinton becomes the first sitting president to testify before a grand jury investigating his conduct. After the questioning at the White House is finished, Clinton goes on national TV to admit he had an inappropriate relationship with Monica Lewinsky.
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I especially enjoy reading the repubican criticism of this military action. "highly complex ethnic conflict", "almost total lack of clarity and coherence as to the outcome the Administration's policy is designed to produce, and "address these flaws in its policy before U.S. forces are committed ...operation has now become precisely what the Administration promised Congress and the American people it would not be: an ill-defined, open-ended nation-building project -- with no end in sight" ("stay the course anyone?) all sound like the same criticisms of the Iraq policy coming from the other side of the aisle. :p
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