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Article: GOP Congress probably won't improve U.S. foreign policy. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- November 11, 1994
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As a frequent critic of President Clinton's foreign policy (style and content), I've been trying to figure out whether the Republican landslide in Congress will improve things.
Republicans have long prided themselves on their foreign policy smarts, and have stressed how poorly Clinton measures up. And Clinton bobbled his chance to define to the U.S. public how American power ought be used abroad after the Cold War.
But the signs already emerging out of this week's political earthquake don't make me optimistic about foreign policy changes.
Isolationists are in ascendancy within a divided Republican Party. In a display of foreign policy schizophrenia, Republican ...