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On his way to becoming an entrepreneur's entrepreneur, the Vietnam veteran suffered a number of setbacks and gained experience as a soldier, businessman, father, skier, and "Spiderman".
Everybody duly notes all the overseas financial setbacks.
The program's supporters--who compared the project to trying to "hit a bullet with a bullet "--said that 1) success in the next test will justify a go-ahead; and 2) the setbacks result from Clinton's unrealistic timetable.
The Jerusalem Post noted that, despite reports of Russian military setbacks in Chechnya, Yeltsin said that Russia "will finish with the [Chechen] terrorists within a month."
"If we bomb, it won't be to impose a solution, as we don't have one, but because of a need for Clinton to show signs of international political life after his many setbacks, because of the CNN effect that renders intolerable humanitarian tragedies shown on television at the expense of all other ones, and in order to save what little credibility remains to NATO in the Balkans."