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What is happening in the gulf is not collective security but a coincidence of interests. And it is hardly collective. Without the U.S. leading, prodding, bribing and blackmailing, no one would have stirred. Nothing would have been done: no embargo, no Desert Shield. The world would have written off Kuwait the way the last body pledged to collective security, the League of Nations, wrote off Abyssinia...
...Schmoozer. He prefers consensus to confrontation. He not only values his relationships with foreign leaders but actually listens to them. Most are counseling patience. An aide says that the President has been especially impressed by the cautions of Margaret Thatcher, the Iron Lady of the Falklands. She believes the embargo should be given more of a chance...
...gulf since the crisis broke. He dropped in on Saudi King Fahd (who was quoted by a French spokesman as saying of economic sanctions, "All is very well, but when do we strike?") and leaders of the United Arab Emirates, and spent a night on a French destroyer on embargo-enforcement duty in the gulf. The French press predicted that Mitterrand would soon order another 7,000 ground troops to Saudi Arabia, reinforcing an initial detachment...
...cement the coalition and build momentum against Iraq and is likely with its allies to propose several of them: to condemn Iraq's looting and destruction of Kuwait; to demand that Iraq not only withdraw but also pay reparations; and to make countries that help Iraq evade the economic embargo subject to sanctions themselves...
...whole, American officials contend that the coalition so far has held together remarkably well. They note, for example, that sanctions usually begin to break down rather quickly but that the current alliance has drawn the embargo against Iraq ever tighter. The job, however, is far from done. The U.S. may have to hold the coalition together for months or even years, either to wage effective war against Iraq or to contain a Saddam Hussein who would remain a menace even after a withdrawal from Kuwait. That is a job that will guarantee continuing headaches. But there is no alternative...