Bill Clinton: “Yes, but if you look at it--if you look at--there are some areas in the Bosnian peacekeeping operation, like civilian…”

“Yes, but if you look at it--if you look at--there are some areas in the Bosnian peacekeeping operation, like civilian police, for example, where the Europeans have 9 times as many as we do. We put up more money. You look at the different allocations. If you look at what's going on in the United Nations, if the congressional position--which is that we ought to have our U.N. dues lowered to 20 percent--prevails, since a lot of really poor countries pay even less than their fair share of the world's GNP, we'd actually be getting off light compared to many, many other countries--really light. So it's just not true that we always pay an unfair share, but it is true that we are called upon to bear the largest burden. If it helps us, I think we ought to do it. And if it's right and we can do it at an acceptable price, we ought to do it, whether or not we're sure it helps us. But it's hard to quarrel with the argument that we've been hurt by having 220-odd trade agreements in the last 5 years, when you look at what's happened, and a third of our growth coming out of trade. It's hard to quarrel with the argument that we've been hurt by our leadership in Bosnia or the Middle East, in Northern Ireland or any of these other places. It's hard to quarrel with the fact that our efforts to work with other countries to deal with chemical and biological and nuclear weapons, to deal with climate change, to deal with global disease spread, those things are good for Americans right where they live. And we just simply don't have an option to say, ``Well, I'm sorry, it looks bad in the newspaper today so I think I'll check out of this old world.'' But it looked pretty good there for a couple of years, and we were getting a whole lot more than we were giving, so we liked that. We've got to be consistent, and we've got to realize that there is an interdependence within our country, on each other, and beyond our country. And I've been working on that. And I'm supposed to be a pretty good communicator, but I don't think I've done as well as I need to. I've got to do more to persuade people. Racial Divisions in America Mr. Lehrer. On a domestic issue, one that you've also been talking about a lot--recently, in particular, but you've always talked about it--and that's the racial divisions in this country. Where would you put that in terms of your own concerns and the concerns that you think the average American should have about their country right now as we sit here?”