[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 38 (Wednesday, March 21, 2001)]
[House]
[Page H1016]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY

  (Mr. DUNCAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DUNCAN. Mr. Speaker, former President Clinton promised us we 
would be out of Bosnia by the end of 1996. We are still there and have 
spent billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars in the process. We have spent 
billions more in Haiti, Rwanda, Somalia, Kosovo and many other places. 
We have become the world's policeman, even though our people do not 
want us to be.
  There are armed conflicts going on in many places all around the 
world all the time. We seem to follow a CNN foreign policy, throwing 
huge money at whichever problem area is being emphasized on the 
national news. Macedonia is next. We are spending $4 million every day 
in Iraq 10 years after the Gulf War.
  In Sunday's Washington Times, syndicated columnist Steve Chapman 
wrote this:

       Remember the war in Kosovo? The United States launched an 
     11-week aerial bombardment of Yugoslavia in 1999 to help the 
     ethnic Albanians. Two years later, our soldiers are fighting 
     the Albanians and welcoming help from the Serbs. In the 
     Balkans, you see, a friend is merely someone who isn't your 
     enemy just yet.

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