Abstract: If there is anything the foreign policy strategists should have gained in the 199Os from peacekeeping operations in places like Angola, Rwanda, Somalia, and the Balkans it's this: easy to get involved; terribly, terribly difficult to get out. It's not even really fair to say that we should have learned that lesson we should have already known that lesson. Regardless, the experiences of the past decade should have burned this point into every foreign policy strategist's brain. Perhaps it should be heartening then that, of the mere handful of foreign policy issues played out in the 2000 U.S. presidential campaign, one of them addressed this specific issue of exit strategies. Namely, how to craft a successful conclusion to the ongoing Balkan peacekeeping morass? Condolezza Rice's proposal for the U.S. to depart and leave it to the Europeans to finish the job met with a predictable response a very cold European shoulder.
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101 |
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21 MAY 2001 |
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A317704 |
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