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Article: US Foreign Policy: Post-Cold War world defeats Clinton
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 30, 1994
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PRESIDENT Bill Clinton sounded aggrieved last week as he
attacked critics of his foreign policy for advancing "simplistic
ideas that sound good on bumper stickers but that would have tragic
consequences". He could also have defended his foreign policy by
making the embarrassing admission that, after 18 months in office,
it differs little from that of President George Bush. On Russia,
China, Bosnia, Iraq, Nafta and human rights, Mr Clinton has done
nothing new.
Why, then, has he got such a bad press? Only on Somalia and
Haiti did he seriously modify Mr Bush's approach. Yet polls show
that for the first time most Americans disapprove of his handling
of foreign affairs. Abroad foreign ...