Gone to the Lake: Republicans and Foreign Policy
Mini Teaser: In a July 1995 speech before an enraptured audience assembled atWashington's Center for Strategic and International Studies, HouseSpeaker Newt Gingrich addressed the broad issues of post-Cold WarU.
Below the strategic level the Republican performance has also been
uneven. Over Bosnia, for example, the leadership has alternated from
a hands-off policy under Bush to demands for active American
leadership under Clinton. At the point when Republicans were asked to
back these demands up with real votes, however, they balked. The
December 1995 Senate debate revealed deep Republican hesitation about
any foreign policy commitment be