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Article: Clinton Abroad.(President Bill Clinton's foreign policy)
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- The Washington Monthly
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- March 1, 1999
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His record isn't perfect, but it's better than the experts think
It is not exactly fashionable in polite Washington society, if it still exists, to go around defending the conduct of American foreign policy by President Bill Clinton and his administration over the last six years. When Clinton took office in 1993, those who had presided over the final victories in the Cold War, the tearing down of the Berlin Wall, the liberation of eastern Europe, the unification of Germany, the triumph of the Gulf War--George Bush himself, James Baker, Brent Scowcroft, Dick Cheney and their senior deputies--joined the melange of foreign policy critics. They knew, and ...