Word: desertion
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There?s an old joke about an economist trapped on a desert island, with the only sustenance a crate of canned goods that had washed up on shore. His fellow survivors ask the learned man his ideas for getting a meal. His reply: "First, assume we have a can opener...
Bush's father had the same people around him during Desert Storm, but he bore the solitary burden of a President at war. On Friday at the Washington National Cathedral, after the President delivered his homily, Bush senior reached over to squeeze his son's hand, his eyes not looking at him but raised toward the heavens. Like few others, he knows that the President...
...different problem," says the father as he thinks back over his experience in Desert Storm 11 years ago. "I knew who the enemy was. I knew what our mission was. This is a more difficult battle; this will be a longer battle." As Reagan's Vice President in the 1980s, he headed up a task force on terrorism. That gave him a good understanding of what can and what cannot be done...
...There are some similarities to Desert Storm," Bush says, "like getting other nations to support us, convincing them that our intentions are good. We have to show the Arab countries that we are not going to disrupt them. There can be great hostility in the Arab world...
...where the Kagaity air base is just some 12 miles from the Afghan border) are likely to facilitate U.S. operations in the region. Tajik and Uzbek leaders had originally offered their facilities to the U.S., but withdrew their offer under pressure from Moscow. Moscow had cooperated with Washington during Desert Storm in 1991, sharing intelligence with the U.S. and providing a Russian air force reconnaissance AWAC-type plane. This time, Moscow's cooperation appears to be going further - though it remains to be seen whether Putin will exact some price for it later...