Word: desertic
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...everything to lose in facing an army of one million troops, brought up on desert warfare and undeterred by eight years of devastating stalemate with Iran. Is it really worth thousands of American lives to restore Kuwait's less than palatable Sabah monarchy? To guarantee the flow of cheap oil, when we have known for years that we must develop alternative energy sources? To put a stop to one dictator's agression and atrocities, when we turn our backs on countless similar violations of human rights and international law? To appease the president's "impatience...
...body that can constitutionally declare war--the United States Congress. Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution gives Congress the sole power to declare war, yet members of Congress don't even seem concerned with preserving this Constitutional prerogative. And Bush has been all too willing to run Operation Desert Shield without their input...
WHEN he first ordered the deployment of United States troops to Saudi Arabia on August 9, Bush was hailed for his wisdom and boldness by the American public, by allies, even by Congress. But the early days of Desert Shield are gone, and in his do-it-alone approach to dealing with Saddam Hussein and in shaping what he calls a "new world order," Bush has flagrantly expanded his role as Commander-in-Chief. He's trying to run this one alone...
...movie's two hours and 17 minutes, there is very little dialogue at all; half an hour passes with hardly a word spoken except in Tamashek, the language of the Tuareg nomads, with whom Kit hitches a fateful ride. But there are many profound images of the desert in all its pitiless grandeur, courtesy of Bertolucci and his peerless cinematographer, Vittorio Storaro. The wind sculpts mountains and minarets out of the shifting sand. On a rocky spot where Port and Kit have just made desperate love, the setting sun alights for a moment as if in benediction...
...many Bertolucci heroes a passive creature whose bravado consists in allowing chance to work its will on him, at first believes he will enjoy feeling stranger in a strange land. North Africa, he thinks, will offer escape into adventure, exotic peril, the seductions of oblivion. He is wrong. The desert demands his surrender. The sand is quicksand; it will swallow him whole...