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...such a catchy phrase; it carries the onus of one of the greatest tragedies in this country's history. Yet, for all that momentousness, it is a phrase ill-suited to the kinds of conflicts in which the United States chooses to intercede. Fear of the spread of Communism and a tip in the world's balance of power triggered American involvement in Vietnam. These days, Communism doesn't pose such a daunting threat to the world...
When Fidel Castro and Deng Xiaoping die, Communism's last major scions will be gone. No successor in either Cuba or China has the same personal sway these two rulers have wielded. In China, by far the more important of the two nations, Communism appears to have devolved into a heavily regulated, semi-legal form of capitalism. Only North Korea, whose development program for nuclear weapons makes the news every week, can take the role of menacing outpost of Communism. Still, more nations than the United States would want to have a hand in the quelling of a belligerent nuclear...
...nice thought. Unfortunately, it's been disproved in Yugoslavia, where the fall of communism has brought a vicious three-way war. Serbia and Croatia, both under democratically elected Presidents, intermittently fight each other while jointly dismembering democratic Bosnia. Serbia had a parliamentary election Dec. 19 in which all the parties supported Serbia's aggression -- although it has left the country a basket case. The Yugoslav mess is one reason some former hawks have become born-again doves. They have lost their interest in promoting democracy. They look at the postcommunist world and see that the most common cause...
...keep the bark on.) The lust for power, or at very least the conviction that increased state power is the solution to all ills, simply has to be present in any proposal to boost regulation over one-seventh of the nation's economy. Two years after the collapse of communism, and at a time when even the mild-mannered Eurosocialists are considering a four-day workweek in order to boost their % stagnant employment statistics, faith in the efficacy of state management remains surprisingly strong here. The reason is that the potential problem solvers look forward to a busy future...
Normally, NATO gatherings put people to sleep. This one is different. In the wake of communism's collapse, the question on the table for the first time is whether to expand eastward to embrace those former Soviet satellites finally in a position to join the free world's premier defense alliance. "It would be a historic sin to miss this opportunity to bind in the East Europeans," says NATO Secretary-General Manfred Worner. But the West, led by the U.S., is about to commit that very sin. The 16 nations that already enjoy NATO's protection are on the verge...