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...should be the same lesson we thought we had learned from World War II: The U.S. must support the forces of democracy around the world. We cannot recede into the background and pretend that we are just one of the member states of the United Nations. Be it at Dunkirk or Gorazde, the embattled disciples of democracy look to the U.S. for more than just funds and materiel...
While the belief that Saddam pulled off some sort of Dunkirk at the end of Desert Storm may have a superficial attraction, I want to cut it off and kill it once and for all. It is true that more tanks and Republican Guard troops escaped from Kuwait than we expected. And yes, we could have taken another day or two to close that escape hatch. And yes, we could have killed, wounded or captured every single soldier in the Republican Guard in that trap. But it would not have made a bit of difference in Saddam's future conduct...
Deep inside the Pentagon, the 1,500-page plan to pull 25,000 U.N. peacekeepers out of Bosnia is known as Op Plan 40-104. In the Pentagon's public-affairs suites, the plan is known as Operation Determined Effort. But some American troops deride it as Dunkirk 2. Last week's fall of Srebrenica increased the probability that the plan will become a reality...
...wanted the U.S. to defeat Germany first, before turning to Japan, and did not want to put off the Americans by disputing strategy. So the British agreed to the invasion of Europe as something they intended to do -- only not right away. With searing memories of the retreat to Dunkirk in 1940 and of horrifying losses at the Somme and Passchendaele in World War I, the British shrank from binding themselves to another all-out effort on the European mainland. They much preferred to attack the Germans around the periphery -- in the Mediterranean and southern Europe...
Merle, 81, was a French army interpreter for the British forces when captured at Dunkirk. He is the author of the novel Weekend at Dunkirk...