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Porter Goss: “the world is not waiting for the White House to face the challenge of global leadership. In Bosnia, North Korea, Iraq…”

On the recordApril 21, 1994
the world is not waiting for the White House to face the challenge of global leadership. In Bosnia, North Korea, Iraq, Haiti, and several Africa nations tensions mount tragedies multiply. The Washington Post, not known for tough critique of Democrat administrations, has launched a scathing review of this President's failed leadership on foreign policy. The Post said of President Clinton, ``Positioning himself as the pawn of a self-driven international machine, he has abdicated what ought to be a great power's serious effort to win, first, the American people and then others to policies of American design--as Gorazde shudders under point blank Serb shelling--he flees Washington for a rally of Mustang owners,'' The appearance that President Clinton is more comfortable behind the wheel of an antique car explains why our allies grow increasingly uncomfortable with him as the lead driver of the globe's only superpower.
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Porter Goss
Florida
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Criticizing President Clinton's foreign policy leadership during a speech on global challenges.

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