Word: arabic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...managed to anger the political left and right simultaneously. And the replies they got from the nation's top foreign-policy officials were limp, cant-filled and suspiciously incomplete. Columbus mirrored the very same problem President Bill Clinton faces in trying to persuade most of America's allies, the Arab world and marginally friendly countries like Russia and China. He hasn't done any better with them than his advisers did in the heartland...
...methods Washington is proposing. Air strikes of the size now gathering steam in the gulf, the French say, are a no-win policy that can only benefit Saddam. The bombs will miss his weapons, kill Iraqi civilians and rally support for Saddam at home and in the Arab world. The French government assumes that after an air strike, Saddam will throw out the U.N. inspectors altogether, and that will be the end of the outside world's ability to monitor his biological-, chemical- and nuclear-weapons programs...
...bombs Iraq. Because many of the key targets in urban areas and elsewhere will be packed with "human shields," the attacks will kill civilians, including women and children. Saddam will lose no time laying out their bodies for the world's press to photograph. The Arab world is already disapproving, and could explode into anti-American demonstrations once the bloody corpses appear on television...
...caused by bombing will only add to already overwhelming misery. Bombing Iraq once again, especially if Iraq does not first attack another country, will just add to the growing resentment of the U.S. in the region. America is a foreign power exerting increasing influence, and the people of the Arab world notice the threat to their sovereignty...
...lesson, then: Don't send policy advisers to do a president's job. Now Clinton himself has stepped back into the bully pulpit; CNN reports the President made a videotaped address in the Oval Office Wednesday that will be distributed to Arab countries. Ironically, there may be less jeers in Oman than in Ohio...