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Article: The Foreign Policy Temptation
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- November 11, 1994
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Bill Clinton's woes at the polls may yet incline him to give a
fresh hearing to those who have urged more sustained attention to
international affairs. In this realm presidents enjoy relatively
less congressional crowding and more space for personal initiative
and political reward than they do in domestic affairs, as the
president himself has recently discovered in Haiti, North Korea and
the Middle East. Or so the hopeful theory goes.
Certainly Clinton could profit from a more systematic approach
to foreign policy. Regular briefings, regular meetings with the
principals: These would give him the appearance and reality, both