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...absorb the first blow of expenses, Kuwait will borrow money and sell part of its $300 billion of foreign holdings. Then it needs to get oil flowing again as fast as possible, because the bills aren't going to let up. Destroying Kuwait took just seven months for Saddam's occupying forces. Rebuilding it could take an army of globe-straddling companies until the next century...
Saddam Hussein has always had two options: 1) to withdraw from Kuwait and avoid destruction of his forces or 2) not to surrender the invaded territory, let his country absorb allied attacks and fight a defensive ground war. Neither alternative has ever been particularly attractive to the U.S. and its allies, even before the war began. In the first case, Iraq's military power would have been preserved; in the second, allied casualties would be higher...
...smart enough to put all this information in its proper perspective, but other people are stupider than I. I will sort out the facts from the propaganda, fill in what's missing (e.g., unshown brutalities % in Kuwait) and make an intelligent judgment, but other people won't. I can absorb the emotional impact of the terrible imagery of war without losing my ability to reason, but other people cannot. I am responsible enough to weigh the consequences of reversing course now that war has started, but my fellow citizens are not to be trusted...
...into billions of dollars in additional military and financial aid. Last month Finance Minister Yitzhak Modai estimated that Israel would need $3 billion to cover war-related costs and $7 billion to $10 billion more in grants and loan guarantees over the next five years to help absorb Soviet Jewish immigrants. The angry response in Washington forced Shamir to backpedal furiously, and the figures are now described as mere talking points...
...cities may be able to absorb the death of one young man with indifference, but in places like Coulterville (pop. 115) the loss strikes home with intense personal force. "If I could trade for Thom, I'd do it," says the distraught Marine who helped recruit him. "Poor...