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Article: War clouds gather over ship of state. (politics and foreign policy)
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- Insight on the News
- Article date:
- January 16, 1995
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As the Western alliance lurches clumsily toward a new post-Cold War mission, a battle over foreign policy between President Clinton and the GOP-controlled Congress may complicate U.S. diplomacy.
Life was so much simpler during the Cold War. Differences may have cropped up among the Western allies, but the sense of anti-Communist purpose supplied a discipline that kept NATO members in check and fenced in neo-isolationist politicians on both sides of the Atlantic. Washington, London and even Paris could agree that the compelling objective of their foreign policies was to prevent Soviet communism from spreading into Western Europe and to block Moscow from extending its ...