Running Head Terrorism

Terrorism

Terrorism

Clinton

During the Clinton administration's two terms in office, terrorism was treated primarily as a criminal justice problem and was not allowed to get in the way of the "real" foreign policy issues relations with Russia and China and the dynamics of the western alliance. The administration opposed almost every proposal for toughening measures against terrorism. For example:

When legislation was proposed to cripple Iranian funding of terrorism by mandating U.S. retaliation against companies that aided its oil industry, the administration first threatened to veto it unless the president were allowed to waive sanctions, then blocked sanctions in virtually every ...