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Article: NEWEST BILL CLINTON DEMONSTRATES AN UNUSUAL LEVEL OF CANDOR.(Editorial)(Column)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- November 29, 1996
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Now that the election is over, Bill Clinton can level with the American people. The president has announced that he is prepared to keep American troops in Bosnia for another 18 months despite an earlier pledge to bring them home by year's end.
It was a pledge only a purely political president would have made, for no responsible commander-in-chief would have put an arbitrary time limit on a military mission. Announcing such a schedule only encourages aggressors to wait until American forces depart to pursue their designs.
By extending the American commitment, Bill Clinton may have broken still another promise, but he has adopted a more effective and ...