[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 15 (Tuesday, February 22, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: February 22, 1994]
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                         CLINTON FOREIGN POLICY

  (Mr. KNOLLENBERG asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KNOLLENBERG. Mr. Speaker, throughout his first year in office, 
President Clinton has set the ship of state adrift in some very rocky 
international waters. Now, after 13 months of rudderless foreign 
policy, President Clinton has hit upon a cease fire in Sarajevo 
brokered in large part by the French and Russians.
  It is time for Mr. Clinton to start taking foreign policy seriously. 
We have seen our foreign policy wander through the sands of Somalia 
until American soldiers were killed for no apparent reason.
  We have seen American military involvement in Bosnia at least 
temporarily averted through this fragile cease-fire. Where do we go 
from here?
  With an ever-growing crisis on the Korean Peninsula, now more than 
ever, it is time to put our rudder back in the water and find a 
direction for our foreign policy.
  In order to prevent future conflicts, Mr. Clinton must aim another 
laser beam at foreign policy, and reassert American leadership in the 
world arena.

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