In fact, the Administration had to have decided to adopt the Tarnoff Doctrine sometime before 31 March 1993.
Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Peter Tarnoff yesterday dispelled any lingering doubts about the Clinton foreign policy.
The Center for Security Policy believes that the United States can ill-afford either the Tarnoff Doctrine or the military strategy it is precipitating.
The Center finds it instructive that another former Carter hand, Secretary Christopher, chose not to repudiate Tarnoff or to disassociate himself from his remarks.
Needless to say, the debut of the Tarnoff Doctrine was an unqualified disaster, giving rise to increasingly frantic efforts to disassociate the Administration from its premises.
If mixed signals about the status of the Tarnoff Doctrine is the order of the day at the State Department, over at Defense the message is being read loud and clear.
According to the "Tarnoff Doctrine, " the United States neither has the resources nor the will any longer to be the leader of the international community and "our friends" around the world had better get used to it.
Pragmatic responses for example, Japanese and South Korean nuclear weapons programs may not be what the Tarnoff Doctrine had in mind when it talks about increased allied burden-sharing, but they are predictable reactions to such a vacuum of American power.
While departmental spokesman Richard Boucher tried with a straight face to suggest that there was no connection between the Grossman memo and the Tarnoff debacle, the implication was unmistakable: Such a clearance process had not been in place before Tarnoff delivered his remarks and therefore his comments had been unauthorized.
Last week, the Clinton Administration became embroiled in controversy over its world view: Does the Administration believe, as Under Secretary of State Peter Tarnoff stated "on background" in a 25 May meeting with reporters, that the United States can no longer afford to exercise global power and therefore will generally decline to do so?
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