Foreign Battleground
Newsweek, March, 2008 by Michael Hirsh
The commander-in-chief test is no breeze. Obama and Clinton pass some sections, but need help in others.
It was the classic 3 a.m. call, and Bill Clinton later said that not responding to it was the biggest mistake of his presidency. In April 1994, murderous Hutu tribesmen in Rwanda launched one of the worst killing sprees of modern times. Haunted by the “Black Hawk Down” debacle in Somalia a year earlier, when 18 U.S. servicemen were killed, the Clinton administration and the United Nations sat paralyzed while genocide occurred: 800,000 Tutsis were slaughtered in just 100 days. “Clinton now realizes he was incredibly ill served by his national-security team,” a former senior adviser told NEWSWEEK shortly before Clinton left office, in an anonymous postmortem on his...
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