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...speech dealt with the competing roles of diplomacy and military action in American foreign policy. Shelton said the armed forces should be deployed to defend "vital or important national interests...
Questions of military intervention become more problematic when the military intervenes to defend humanitarian interests, he said, pointing in NATO's recent campaign to stop ethnic cleansing in Kosovo as an example...
...forum on Wednesday afternoon contained relatively few College students and a large number of people formerly or currently affiliated with the military. Several members of the audience asked Shelton to defend controversial national policies...
...Congressional hostility to the U.N. has grown in the '90s, in part through the Clinton administration's failure to properly explain and defend the organization. "Helms still spoke of the U.N. as if it?s some kind of world government threatening U.S. sovereignty, which doesn?t reveal much understanding of international diplomacy," says Dowell. "But what may be more important is that Holbrooke is trying to draw Helms into the process of U.S. relations with the rest of the world." And being a Southern gentleman, Helms? repaid his hosts? hospitality by inviting all the Security Council ambassadors to Washington...
...time to campaign in most states. Democratic hopeful Bill Bradley, for example, is trailing Al Gore in most parts of the country. During the primary hiatus, his camp will have to choose between going on the offensive in the parts of the country where he's trailing or to defend the parts where he's doing well. The March 7 vote includes most of New England, where the ex-senator has some of his strongest support, and a large chunk of the Midwest, a Gore stronghold. Based on Iowa and New Hampshire, the Bradley camp will have to decide whether...