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Article: CLINTON SCRAMBLES FOR WAYS TO DEAL WITH FOREIGN POLICY CRISES.(Editorial)(Column)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- June 4, 1998
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India and Pakistan have redrawn the map of global power and ambition with their competitive nuclear tests. Their defiant blasts call into question the nature and durability of American leadership in world affairs a few years after the United States appeared as an unprecedented world colossus.
The Clinton administration has abruptly stopped fretting about the risks of becoming an overbearing global superpower. Instead it scrambles after a strategy to accommodate a set of foreign policy crises that have spun out of Washington's control in a matter of weeks.
The nuclear tests in the Asian subcontinent arrive as Clinton's Middle East diplomacy is dead in the ...