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Bush has described his broad notion of a new world order as a world in which "no one, friend or foe, should doubt our desire for peace, and no one should underestimate our determination to confront aggression...
...must be guided to their targets by the pilot. Though not as smart as the infrared models favored by the U.S. Air Force, which can be fired and left to track the target on their own, the laser-guided Mavericks are less likely to mistake a friend for a foe...
Warships and attack planes carry electronic ID systems, like the IFF (Identification Friend or Foe) radio transponders that are standard equipment on military and civilian aircraft. A missile battery equipped with IFF can "interrogate" an aircraft by beaming a radio signal at it and listening to the answering squawk. But the system is not foolproof. In the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, Arab batteries fired 2,100 antiaircraft missiles and destroyed 85 aircraft -- 45 of them Arab, 40 Israeli...
ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS. Both have much to win and much to lose in the gulf confrontation. Israel's gain would be the defeat and containment of its strongest Arab foe. Its loss -- at least in the eyes of many citizens -- would be heightened pressure, from the U.S. among others, to resolve the Arab- Israeli conflict by giving the Palestinians a homeland. If that does not happen, the Palestinians, having lined up behind Saddam Hussein, will find themselves poorer, weaker and more alienated than ever before...
This time there are fewer illusions and no jaunty warriors or exultant emissaries. Television has brought the world into the galleries and to the White House. The foe is half a globe away, and the destructive forces gathered in the Saudi desert bear no comparisons to the minieball and grapeshot...