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...been a tough job to fill, what with Dick Cheney and Colin Powell looming over the foreign-policy team. Former Indiana Senator Dan Coats, the early favorite, was thought to be either unwilling or unable to deal with the two heavyweights as equals. Tom Ridge was too moderate. And the nominee himself had been the leading contender for CIA director, not top man at the Pentagon...
...Horizon: Two U.S.-trained Colombian battalions are scheduled to launch a major offensive into guerrilla-held territory in January. The U.S. is due to release further installments of its aid package shortly before Clinton leaves office, for which the President will probably once again waive the usual requirement that Colombia show progress on human rights issues. Negotiations between the government and the rebels are going nowhere, and there's a growing sentiment in Colombian politics to stop negotiations and seek a return of the one-third of the country they've handed over to the guerillas in earlier deals. That...
...Clinton Administration inherited President Bush?s policy of containing Saddam, and did nothing to substantially alter it despite ample evidence that it wasn?t working. Worse still, the administration also engaged in a pointless bombing campaign two years ago when Baghdad refused to comply with the arms inspection regime, and then simply stopped its attacks after four days. By clinging to a collapsing sanctions regime, the Clinton administration has failed to maintain the strategic initiative on Iraq, leaving Washington in a position of having to respond to others' initiatives...
...rush into accepting the new satellite-missile deal, and may take a more skeptical look at Pyongyang?s intentions - at least while it's fighting for funds for its missile defense plans. But the moves towards rapprochement with North Korea are strongly backed by South Korea and Japan, the two most important U.S. allies in the region, as well as by China, and while the Bush White House may be tempted to slow down, it's unlikely to try and reverse the course...
...Bomb blasts in Tel Aviv and Gaza on Thursday reportedly killed two and injured 16 more - as if anyone needed reminding that talk of peace means talk of compromise. And so it appears that even a U.S. president's best Solomon impression - the set of proposals that Bill Clinton left hanging in the air over the weekend - leaves those factions outside the Arafat umbrella in a very vengeful mood...