Word: conquests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hours later the President went on TV to deliver a speech that had been in preparation for weeks. His manner was somber and determined. The U.S. goal, he said, "is not the conquest of Iraq; it is the liberation of Kuwait." But in the process, he indicated, the anti-Iraq coalition would destroy the offensive military machine that made Iraq a menace to its neighbors. Said Bush: "We are determined to knock out Saddam Hussein's nuclear-bomb potential. We will also destroy his chemical-weapons facilities...
Proponents of war call dealing appeasement. Walzer says that it we make concessions, "we make ourselves complicitous in the aggression--and in all the further aggressive behavior that our action encourages, as the British and French were complicitous in the conquest of Czechoslovakia after Munich...
...implications of the American entertainment conquest extend well beyond economics. As the age of the military superpowers ends, the U.S., with no planning or premeditation by its government, is emerging as the driving cultural force around the world, and will probably remain so through the next century. The Evil Empire has fallen. The Leisure Empire strikes back...
...Kuwait warrants a war with Iraq. But simply leaving is not the answer. Leaving Vietnam in 1964 would have meant allowing the South Vietnamese the right of self-determination (even if that determination would have yielded Communist tyranny). In the Persian Gulf, withdrawal would mean acquiescing to the conquest of an entire people and allowing the victor to turn his attention to new victims...
Volume three describes the rise of the first civilizations in Sumer and Egypt and uses the first written texts as a guide through early history, including the origins of Judaism with the migration of Abraham from Hammurabi's Ur. Gonick then moves from the earliest bible texts to the conquest of Saddam Husseun's idol Nebuchadrezzar to the rise of the Greeks, devoting the last two volumes more extensively to Athenian life (with much cribbing from Herodotus...