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...they would not take part in any counterinvasion of Kuwait. In Kuwait, as in Korea (our most recent exercise in collective security), if war comes it is America that will carry the fight. When the Iraqis complain that the anti-Iraq coalition, the U.N. front, the whole multi-lateral apparatus, is little more than a cover for an assertion of American power, they exaggerate only slightly...
...hopes on the superconducting supercollidor, a massive government-sponsored project several years and billions of dollars from completion. But Newsweek has called the project "the biggest porkbarrel project in history," and several members of Congress are solidly against it. And even if funding is continued, the 50-mile wide apparatus will only increase attainable energy 20-fold...
...Certainly there was a great failing of the Washington apparatus in the 1980s. But I think, paradoxically, a lot of what happened in the '80s can be blamed on the politicians of the 1930s. When deposit insurance was written into law in '33, it was almost a free ticket. The banking system had been purged of bad loans the old-fashioned way, the weakest banks had long since failed, and the strong banks were barely making...
...town of Mosul during a demonstration protesting food shortages; of an attempt by the President's first cousin to assassinate him; of generals executed for plotting against Saddam. The rumors come not from diplomatic intelligence sources but from Iraqis, many of whom, despite the pervasive fear and security apparatus of the state, insist that opposition and dismay with Saddam Hussein run deep...
...about it: Hussein is intent upon rising to this challenge and achieving Middle Eastern hegemony--while destroying Israel in the process. And here lies the real danger of Iraq's power, the reason the rest of the world cannot allow Hussein's expansionism to remain unchecked and his military apparatus to stay intact...