Word: deserts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nations understand one another's motivations that war breaks out. So it was in 1939, when Adolf Hitler finally convinced Britain and France that he meant to conquer Europe. So it was in 1990, when Saddam Hussein established beyond doubt that he wanted more than just a swatch of desert on the Kuwaiti border...
...anyone told me after Desert Storm that this [Clinton's victory] would be tonight's outcome, I would not have believed it," said Sibylle Barrasso, a resident of Wellesley...
...bandaged European, on his sickbed in 1945, stands for many things that are lost and wounded. And in the dying light of Empire, Ondaatje shows us the end of one world and the birth of another -- deracinated, post-national -- where people must be mapmakers in a different kind of desert. Kipling has been eclipsed by Kip. Occasionally, the author's design becomes almost too insistent, finding in Hiroshima and Nagasaki not only the explosion of the whole world of nation-states, but also the final cruelty of the West upon the East. By then, however, he has thoroughly enveloped...
THUS HAS THE TREMENDOUS POlitical momentum bestowed on George Bush by Desert Storm dissipated like so many grains of sand. Few Bush opponents would have anticipated that he might be vulnerable on his handling of Iraq in the aftermath of Desert Storm, when 91% of the U.S. public applauded his leadership. But now the issue appeals to Clinton and Perot as they look for ways to undermine the one area where Bush's reputation remained strong. In the final debate, Perot lobbed a bombshell -- with no supporting evidence -- claiming Bush had given Saddam a secret green light to seize...
Stripped of politics, how fair is all that? Did Bush really bungle Iraq, or did he make a decent job of an inherently tortuous situation? Desert Shield and Desert Storm -- the diplomacy of building an anti-Saddam coalition and then routing the Iraqi dictator on the battlefield -- are an acknowledged triumph. The smart bombs of hindsight are aimed instead at prewar diplomacy, where Bush is accused of coddling Saddam despite mounting evidence of his aggressive intentions...