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Back in Washington, Nunn brought in a military luminary to dim all others. "In every case that I'm familiar with," said retired General H. Norman Schwarzkopf of Desert Storm fame, "when it became known in a unit that someone was openly homosexual, polarization occurred, violence sometimes followed, morale broke down, and unit effectiveness suffered." Schwarzkopf argued that the military had its hands full with deep defense cuts, troop reductions and base closures. He also offered a graphic description of how military leaders would respond to any order to integrate gays into the forces: "They will be just like many...
Robert M. Broggi '94 wanted Diane and Sam to get married. Horowitz had his own plan: "Woody's elected President; Sam, Diane, and Rebecca all go off to a desert island together, and Norm gets bronzed in his bar stool...
Such expansiveness led Kennedy into Vietnam. And that led liberals not just to desert the Vietnam adventure, but to desert the very vision of American internationalism that Kennedy, and Democrats from Harry Truman to Hubert Humphrey, had championed...
...helicopters at a cost of $30 million to $40 million a day to carry out a humanitarian mission. They accomplished the primary goal: saving thousands of Somalis from imminent starvation. The Americans and their allies in the 24- nation expedition created at least some oases of safety in a desert of anarchy. And they blazed the way for a new kind of U.N. force -- not the lightly armed peacekeepers of the past but "peace-enforcing" troops toting enough weapons to fight a real battle and authorized to shoot when needed...
Americans know what a war in the desert is like. Many remember a bitter conflict in the jungle. Now they must imagine one in the mountains...