Full 2000 Debate Congressional Republicans say they might not pay for Middle East peace.
Democrats oppose free trade agreements.
President Clinton bombed Serbia, but wouldn't stop genocide in Rwanda. It doesn't add up at all as a coherent foreign policy for the world's only superpower. And it surely cries out for a robust foreign policy debate in the first presidential election of the 21st century. Half of those questions were about missile defense, a worthy topic, but left a world of subjects uncovered, including how much of future budget surpluses should be devoted to defense and foreign aid and where it's appropriate to send U.S. forces. One of them is Gen. James Jones, commandant of the Marine Corps, who is warning that a country that spends only 2.9 percent of its gross domestic product on defense, as America now does, is bound to lose influence in the world.