Many Republicans and Democrats said they could not even guess how the foreign crises would play politically.

Opponents said it would undermine the President's flexibility to deal with foreign crises.

The American attention span for foreign crises is notoriously short.

Besides," the security minister went on, "a foreign crisis might help cool off the domestic front, at least in the short term.

But most presidents have come back for foreign crises, not domestic ones.

How will that person react when that inevitable foreign crisis comes down?

The nation was in the grip of crises foreign and domestic.

And it stems partly from the obstacles that would face any challenger trying to find a campaign issue in a foreign crisis.

So we have to hold judgment on how the Clintonians will handle new foreign crises.

These conditions can only intensify in the event of an economic downturn or foreign crisis.