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...commemorate the founding of the Islamic Republic. Moussavi's exuberance was understandable: for the first time since Iraqi Strongman Saddam Hussein launched his invasion of Iran's oil-rich Khuzistan province 18 months ago, Iran could boast that it had gained the upper hand on the battlefield. Appropriately, the places of honor at the rally went to the front-line heroes and wounded soldiers of Iran's bitter struggle with its neighbor...
...future: the war will fall out of the sky one afternoon and land on J.C. Penney's. But in the Falklands, we have a war-if it came to that-that would presumably be conducted in what used to be the great colonial Elsewhere, the distant and exotic battlefield that soldiers sail away to. It would be a regressive war fought for the most part with means that seem almost primitive-ships at sea, for example, and marines...
Ortega also restated the desire of El Salvador's left-wing guerrillas for a negotiated settlement. The U.S. has consistently opposed negotiations that would require the government to give up at the bargaining table what the insurgents have not been able to win on the battlefield or at the polls. Indeed, "negotiated settlement" has become something of a loaded code phrase to describe the approach embraced by the French, as well as some members of the U.S. Congress, that would force the Salvadoran government to share power with leftists. But one staunch supporter of Salvadoran President José Napole...
Haig has been out front on the El Salvador issue from the first days of the Administration. He overcame objections by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger that it did not make military sense to stake so large a claim on such an uncertain battlefield and by top White House advisers who were reluctant to detract national attention from the President's economic program. Convinced that this battle would be cleanly and quickly won, the Secretary of State designated El Salvador as the location for a U.S. showdown-not just with a band of 6,000 leftist guerrillas, who were then...
...idea of a negotiated settlement seems attractive as a possible solution to El Salvador's bloodletting. But that course of action has serious drawbacks for the U.S. at this stage. It would give the guerrillas power that they had won neither on the battlefield nor at the ballot box. Negotiations would vindicate guerrilla warfare by abandoning the principle that an insurgency should not be allowed to force a government to the bargaining table by means of violence. The talks would also be bound to increase the momentum for an eventual leftist triumph...