Editing Clinton Doctrine (section)

==Clinton statements==
Various speeches have been proposed as texts for a doctrine. Thus, in a February 26, 1999, speech, President [[Bill Clinton]] said the following:<ref>{{cite web|author=Michael T. Klare |url=http://www.thenation.com/doc/19990419/klare |archive-url=https://archive.today/20060318133204/http://www.thenation.com/doc/19990419/klare |url-status=dead |archive-date=2006-03-18 |title=The Clinton Doctrine |date=1999-04-19 |access-date=2008-09-16 |publisher=The Nation }}</ref>

:''It's easy ... to say that we really have no interests in who lives in this or that valley in [[Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnia]], or who owns a strip of brushland in the [[Horn of Africa]], or some piece of parched earth by the [[Jordan River]]. But the true measure of our interests lies not in how small or distant these places are, or in whether we have trouble pronouncing their names. The question we must ask is, what are the consequences to our security of letting conflicts fester and spread. We cannot, indeed, we should not, do everything or be everywhere. But where our values and our interests are at stake, and where we can make a difference, we must be prepared to do so.''

Clinton later made statements that augmented his approach to [[Interventionism (politics)|interventionism]]:

:''"[[Genocide]] is in and of itself a national interest where we should act"'' and ''"we can say to the people of the world, whether you live in Africa, or Central Europe, or any other place, if somebody comes after innocent civilians and tries to kill them en masse because of their race, their ethnic background or their religion, and it's within our power to stop it, we will stop it."''

The interventionist position was used to justify U.S. involvement in the [[Yugoslav Wars]]. Clinton was criticized for not intervening to stop the [[Rwandan genocide]] of 1994. Other observers viewed [[Operation Gothic Serpent]] in [[Somalia]] as a mistake.

The Clinton administration also promoted [[globalization]] by pushing for trade agreements. The administration negotiated a total of around 300 trade agreements, such as [[North American Free Trade Agreement|NAFTA]].<ref>Clinton on Foreign Policy at University of Nebraska Archived 2015-04-28 at the Wayback Machine</ref> [[Anthony Lake]] who served as [[National Security Advisor (United States)|National Security Advisor]] to Clinton between 1993 and 1997, showed the Clinton administration's commitment to accelerating the process of globalization in a speech given in 1993. The speech talked about enlarging the community of democracies around the world alongside expanding free markets.<ref>Haaas, Richard. N., 'Fatal Distraction: Bill Clinton's Foreign Policy', ''Foreign Policy 108''(1997), p. 113.</ref>