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...formula: the duration of American resolve is inversely proportional to distance, time and size of deployment. It is easier for a vigorous people to summon resolve when they are under direct physical attack (like London during the blitz) than when their luxuries (big cars and air conditioners, for example) are being assaulted in remote places. National resolve fares badly when the fighting is far away and most of the people are mere spectators, watching from the BarcaLounger. Over time, the dominant passion of the war (as with Vietnam) may become a feeling of futility and guilt...
...first assignment for arriving U.S. units, said Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, is "to deter any further Iraqi aggression" and, if deterrence fails, "to defend Saudi Arabia against attack." Some in Washington are worried that the dispatch of U.S. troops might provoke Saddam Hussein to launch a pre- emptive blitz. "He sees us coming," says Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. "He could try to seize the oil fields and hold them hostage before we have enough men there to stop...
...proposition that the U.S. and the Soviet Union can create more peace working together than apart. As recently as a year ago, such an incursion in the Middle East would probably have caused a fearsome rift between the superpowers. But in the summer of 1990, the Iraqi blitz prompted Washington and Moscow to act in stunning unanimity, each abhorring the raid and demanding, in an unprecedented joint statement, that the invaders retreat. That position was also endorsed by the United Nations Security Council. While all parties were clearly loath to take on the mightiest army in the Arab world...
ATTEMPTING to do the right thing amid an information blitz, we are like the victims of frequent brainwashing that the philosopher Hannah Arendt describes in an essay on political deceit. Contrary to what some might expect, persons subjected to a stream of media manipulation, instead of believing what ever new they are told, grow less impressionable, more cynical, more inclined to disbelieve everything even as more versions of the truth are fed them...
...Lexington, Mass. But last February the Bank of Boston suddenly called in the loan. The bank, which was responding to pressure from U.S. regulators to tighten credit standards, relented only after an outraged Richardson went public with his plight by telling it to reporters in a one-man media blitz. Says he: "It would have made no sense to close my doors and sell everything off just to pay back the bank. How absolutely ridiculous and astounding for a little loan like that...