Word: desertic
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...this confrontation. Giving in to Bush's demands would likely mean discredit and deposition for a dictator of his stripe. If Saddam called our bluff, Bush would be left with two choices: to suffer the humiliation of backing down or, more likely, to go to war in the desert...
Those are the hypothetical extremes: best case, worst case. Americans in a muscular frame of mind (not quite trusting it, however) like to think that they might repeat Israel's 1967 victory: the brilliant lightning strikes, the armies flashing across the desert, the war over quicker than Saturday-morning cartoons...
...crisis, half a world away, has become a presence of bizarre intimacy. The nation's designated killers in the desert look very young on camera and confess that they are scared. Soldiers say hello to the nation on the morning < television shows, like kids away for spring break at some overheated, militaristic Lauderdale. One trooper proposed marriage to his girlfriend back home via satellite...
...Minneapolis suburb of Apple Valley, a middle school teacher startled his students with a warning about the Desert Shield pen pals to whom they had been writing since September. "You need to prepare yourselves," Todd Beach told the class, "because there is a possibility that the people you are writing to might...
...additional 10,000 U.S. troops also arrived in the Persian Gulf, Hall said. The 350,000-strong multinational force now includes about 250,000 Americans, most of them dug into the Saudi Arabian desert facing Iraqi troops...