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...Brent Scowcroft, national security adviser to Presidents Gerald Ford and Bush won the other Peck Presidential award, for service to a president...
...risk that? Why risk us? Have we learned nothing since Sept. 11? Critics ask, "Just what is the cause for war?" Brent Scowcroft claimed that little less than "compelling evidence that Saddam had acquired nuclear-weapons capability" would constitute a casus belli. But is it really smart to wait until after Saddam gets nuclear weapons? At least, critics go on, let's use the military as a last resort. But all nonmilitary options have been tried and have failed. Nothing can force Saddam from power but power. That must be done, as Saddam constitutes the No. 1 threat facing...
Brown fullback Brent Grinna advanced the ball into Harvard territory, but the Bears (0-2, 0-1) got stuck at the Harvard 23 facing a fourth-and-four...
Conspiracy buffs might imagine a family intrigue with George H.W. as the master puppeteer, pulling the strings on his former Administration members Brent Scowcroft, Larry Eagleburger, James Baker and Colin Powell to get the wayward son to restrain his war preparations and tough talk. But the reality has no strings. All those men have gone public with cautionary suggestions for the current President, but the former President did not talk to any of them or review their texts before they wrote and broadcast. Since they left the White House, the elder Bush has treated them as senior statesmen with...
...frenzy. But last week it was the Vice President who was stirring up the fuss, with two bellicose speeches that laid out the case for war against Iraq. What was Cheney up to? With such eminent members of the G.O.P. foreign-policy establishment as former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft, former Secretary of State James Baker and Senator Chuck Hagel all advising a go-slow approach on Iraq, the Vice President was worried that the debate was being lost. "We had to restate the case," says a senior adviser. "This was a place holder." Despite some grumbling at the White...