[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 172 (Thursday, November 2, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H11688]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 UNCLE SAM IS NOT THE WORLD'S POLICEMAN

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, everybody wants peace in Bosnia, but that 
is not the only issue here. The issue is whether American troops should 
be the peacekeepers.
  Now every time there is a problem in the world these foreign leaders 
bow down and call America the superpower. Yes, truly we are a 
superpower. But we are not the only power, ladies and gentlemen. I say, 
if peacekeepers are needed in Bosnia, where is Great Britain? Where is 
Italy? Where is Spain, ladies and gentlemen? All of a sudden did they 
become third-world pushovers? The Constitution did not make Uncle Sam 
the policeman for the world, and Congress should not make Uncle Sam the 
neighborhood crime watch leader, either.
  I say, before one American gets sent to Bosnia, there must be a 
consent, approval, and authorization of the Congress of the United 
States of America.

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