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Originally Posted by saden1
Regarding Somalia, the republican majority in congress weren't exactly backing Clinton.
Also, lets not forget:
1. How Clinton along with a coalition of European nations intervened in Kosovo to stop the slaughter of muslins.
2. Clinton's attempt at middle east peace when he regularly invited Palestinians and Israelis to Camp David. With the help of Clinton Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin shared 1/3 of the Noble Peace Prize. |
With regard to Somalia, the Republicans didn't support him because the mission was undefined, the strategy was poor, and the execution was even worse.
As for Kosovo, Clinton did a pretty good job. But, interestingly he did it without UN approval (because the Russians and Chinese would have vetoed the matter) and because he claimed that the conflict with humanitarian dimensions and one that could spread (aka it was both a war or preemption and a humanitarian one).
Clinton's shining moment in foreign affairs was definately with Israel and Arafat. He did a good job and I can't knock him for it.