Totalitarian leaders like Kim Jong II in North Korea, Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and Fidel Castro in Cuba, can survive. Authoritarian leaders don't . Democratic leaders clearly don't. Even in our own hemisphere democracy is being turned back. Haiti and Columbia have suffered setbacks.
Drugs are more prevalent and the exportation proceeding at a greater rate than ever before.
In Peru, President Alberto Fujimori has questioned whether he is committed to democratic principles. The two biggest foreign policy challenges facing the U.S. are Russia and China. The Clinton administration has preferred to deal with smaller ones, such as the invasion of Haiti, the national security significance of which escaped me and a lot of people whose foreign policy expertise I respect. Whereas our administration went into Somalia strictly for a humanitarian effort, the current administration undertook an experiment in nation building. That's when we had the tragic incident in which we lost 19 soldiers, one of whom was dragged through the streets of Mogadishu.