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...ousting of Manuel Noriega as dictator of Panama. While repeatedly reminding audiences that Iraq is a better entrenched and more highly armed opponent than the loser in any of those conflicts, President Bush also recurrently promised that any battle against Iraq would in no way resemble the "protracted, drawn-out war" in Vietnam. On Jan. 16, the day battle began, Bush said, "I'm hopeful that this fighting will not go on for long and that casualties will be held to an absolute minimum." His words were carefully crafted to be bolstering yet noncommittal. But one could hardly blame...
...pretended to come to free Kuwait, but instead it is bombing the Iraqi people," says Mohammed Kamal, a Jordanian senator and former ambassador to Washington. Even in Saudi Arabia, many citizens, disturbed by the ferocity of the air strikes on Iraq and widespread expectations of a drawn-out conflict, harbor doubts about the wisdom...
...biggest tank battles ever fought, which would also be destructive and bloody. The allies might suffer huge losses so quickly that they would speedily sue for peace or perhaps accede to a panicky U.N. call for a cease-fire (shades of Nasser in 1956). If not, a drawn-out war might fan the worst American fears of "another Vietnam" and eventually build irresistible pressure on Bush to offer some sort of compromise settlement...
...food, water, ammunition and / reinforcements. Even in an eventual ground assault on well-entrenched positions, the allied forces would have enormous technical advantages: satellite intelligence pinpointing Iraqi deployments, and devices that make visibility at night almost as great as in the day, to name only two. Even in a drawn-out war, the Iraqi troops -- fighting without allies, cut off from foreign supplies by the embargo, and with their own munitions factories under incessant aerial bombardment -- would lack staying power; every bullet they fired would deplete a shrinking supply. The trouble, once again, is that Saddam may simply...
...that is if everything goes well, which is no sure thing. The economists in the TIME forum warned that the U.S. faces a minefield of unprecedented risks that could worsen the recession and prolong it through next year and beyond. Chief among them is the threat of a drawn-out war in the Persian Gulf. That could push the price of oil, which closed at $25.92 per bbl. last week, well past the $41.40-per-bbl. peak that it hit in October. Another serious threat is the possibility of a crisis in the U.S. banking system, which is awash...