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On the recordMay 17, 1994
there has been a lot of noise from a few frowning experts who find fault with the President's foreign policy. They say he is out of touch with the great bipartisan tradition. Since that tradition more often than not was to kill our kids for points in the polls, Mr. Clinton can take pride in the criticism. If his unwillingness to borrow money to borrow trouble in other peoples' wars is bad policy, then, to paraphrase the Lincoln story, we should get cases of that bad policy and send them to all of our Presidents.
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Andrew Jacobs
Democratic · Indiana

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Defending President Clinton's foreign policy during a debate.

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