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Bill Clinton: World Cop

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In a major foreign-policy address delivered a few months back in San Francisco, President Bill Clinton solemnly affirmed that everything everywhere in the world is the business of the United States. If you ever entertained the thought that we Americans should be free just to live our lives, raise our families, and participate voluntarily in our communities — forget it. The president of the United States has plans for us and our money. "Today," Mr. Clinton said, "we must embrace the inexorable logic of globalization — that everything, from the strength of our economy to the safety of our cities, to the health of our people, depends on events not only within our borders, but half a world away." Let's pause here to let this sink in. That is truly an extraordinary statement. "Everything depends on events half a world away." Really? Lest you think Clinton has an unrealistic agenda in mind, he added, "We cannot, indeed, we should not, do everything ...

Clinton’s Quagmire

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"The man of system ... seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board; he does not consider that the pieces upon a chess-board have no other principle of motion besides that which the hand impresses upon them; but that, in the great chess-board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon it." Adam Smith's spot-on words from The Theory of Moral Sentiments ring in my ears as I read about President Clinton's rationalization and conduct of his war against Yugoslavia. I was particularly reminded of them when I read that Clinton had said, "In the long run our goal for Kosovo should not be independence but interdependence.... The last thing we need in the Balkans is greater balkanization." Perhaps he should tell it to ...

Clinton’s Quagmire

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Clinton's Quagmire by Sheldon Richman, July 1999 "The man of system ... seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board; he does not consider that the pieces upon a chess-board have no other principle of motion besides that which the hand impresses upon them; but that, in the great chess-board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon it." Adam Smith's spot-on words from The Theory of Moral Sentiments ring in my ears as I read about President Clinton's rationalization and conduct of his war against Yugoslavia. I was particularly reminded of them when I read that Clinton had said, "In the long run our goal for Kosovo should not be independence but interdependence.... The last thing we need in the Balkans is greater balkanization." Perhaps ...

NATO’s Balkans Disaster and Wilsonian Warmongering, Part 1

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NATO's Balkans Disaster and Wilsonian Warmongering, Part 1 by Doug Bandow, July 1999 Part 1 | Part 2 When ethnic Albanian guerrillas originally rejected the Rambouillet peace settlement for Kosovo fashioned by the Clinton administration, a Clinton official raged, "Here is the greatest nation on earth pleading with to do something entirely in their own interest — which is to ...