51.   Both France and Britain pretend that America has no standing in stopping the slaughter in Bosnia because we are unwilling to commit myriads of ground troops to battle.

52.   Both men agreed that they would not send troops to Yugoslavia to oust President Slobodan Milosevic.

53.   Bush disagreed, saying he would not send troops to Rwanda.

54.   Brazil eventually sent troops to Italy where they fought alongside the Allies.

55.   But America sends troops to Bosnia, Somalia, Haiti.

56.   But by his latest adventure -- sending troops to the Kuwaiti border -- Saddam Hussein has shown the West his own desperation and its opportunity.

57.   But for the first time, officials disclosed Sunday that forces from at least six other nations that have deployed troops to Afghanistan are engaged in the combat.

58.   But getting the troops to a crisis is a different matter.

59.   But he called for applying a more rigorous standard of whether U.S. military intervention was warranted before committing troops to the field.

60.   But he declines to commit American troops to peacekeeping duties, which Karzai had sought.