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...some senior commanders. They maintain that it will be mid-February before their troops are fully prepared for combat. But a firsthand inspection of the frontline forces suggests that Myatt's optimism is justified. The U.S. and allied soldiers already in place seem capable of delivering an overwhelming blow against the Iraqis. Even worse from Saddam's viewpoint, the alliance is growing stronger with each passing day. By K-day, 430,000 U.S. and 245,000 allied soldiers will square off against 605,000 Iraqi troops...
Aziz's words unnerved U.S. officials, who realize that Iraq's threats contain a brutal logic. If Saddam can strike even a limited blow against Israel, he may be able to recast the gulf conflict into an Arab-Israeli war, forcing some of Washington's Arab allies to abandon the coalition and perhaps even compelling Syria to switch sides. That gamble must have seemed all the more tempting last Wednesday, when President Hosni Mubarak was quoted as warning that Egypt would reassess its position if Israel became involved -- though he conceded later that "Israel has a right to defend itself...
Despite Iraq's rhetoric, its forces are incapable of dealing a devastating blow to Israel. Israeli fighter pilots should be able to shoot down most, if not all, incoming Iraqi jets before they reach the country's borders. Jerusalem calculates, however, that Baghdad would be able to fire 10 to 20 of its modified Scud B missiles before Israeli or U.S. warplanes destroyed the launching bases in western Iraq. And Israeli defense planners consider Iraq's Sukhoi-24 long-range bombers an even greater threat than the Scud B missiles, which are notoriously inaccurate. Iraq is believed to have...
...Arab People, everything will depend on how the war goes." Nadav Safran, Albertson professor of Middle Eastern studies said. "If it is over quickly and resolved quickly, it will blow over. If it gets messy, there may be some serious consequences...
...modern reader, who will probably be more attentive to Puzo's vivid cynicism and gallows humor than to his gridlock plot. When two nutty M.I.T. students blow up Manhattan's sleazy Times Square area with a miniature A-bomb, it seems as if the author has urban renewal, not tragedy, on his mind...