Word: deserts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bush and campaign manager Robert Teeter worked out their New Hampshire game plan after the President returned from his hapless trip to Japan. Their strategy: take some blame for the economy, stress Bush's longtime ties to the state and, except for some well-placed reminders about the Desert Storm triumph, avoid foreign policy. Masking his patrician demeanor beneath a folksy veneer, Bush began dropping his final g's and r's with a vengeance, substituting "fixin' ta" for "going to" and quoting the lyrics of country- music songs...
...well fires ignited by the Iraqis was extinguished in November, months ahead of schedule. Kuwait is producing 500,000 bbl. of oil a day, well on the way to matching its prewar quota of 1.5 million bbl. Vast lakes of spilled petroleum remain to be drained from the desert sands, but the Kuwait Oil Co. is already pumping 35,000 bbl. daily from those lakes. The blackened skies over the city have cleared, and the air is cleansed of acrid smoke...
That problem is what makes Desert Storm and Just Cause strategically similar, even if their (clear?) objectives are so different. It is not the case that we no longer fight just wars or that we fight just wars unjustly. It is that modern wars require us to act unjustly because there is no half way to kill someone. Our military fights the only way it knows how, and our society thinks like its strategists: If it offends thee, "cut it off--then kill...
...bigger appropriations for high tech weapons, Saddam Hussein remains in power; Kuwait's democratic elite enslaves Filipino servants; Manuel Noriega gets ready for his acquittal; and America's domestic problems go unchecked, too big, too complicated and too politically explosive for the President who brought us Just Cause and Desert Storm to manage...
...BRIEF, strange moment last year, America flashed back to 1983. For a few days in winter, Chrysler returned to its early 1980s advertising campaign: While a LeBaron scooted along a golden desert highway, Kenny Rogers belted out, "The pride is back, born in America...