In and Out with the Tide

Bloody rebukes in Somalia and Haiti raise questions about the lack of guiding principles behind Clinton's zigzagging foreign policy

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As Bill Clinton took care to point out, it's the good guys who have been winning lately in Russia, the Middle East and other areas far more vital to American interests than Haiti. Nonetheless, the Haitian's anguished question had a point. Some extremely bad guys in his poverty-stricken Caribbean nation had just won a round in a showdown with the world's lone superpower. Not necessarily the decisive round; at week's end Haiti's military leaders were backing off a bit from...

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