Word: grenada
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...only human nature to wish for the best, to recoil from the prospect of massive cost and suffering. In this instance, optimism was further fueled by vivid memories of the two-month war in the Falklands, the nine-day conquest of Grenada and the 14-day 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...
...WEANED on the horrors of Vietnam, sickened by the jingoism of Grenada, appalled by the silence of the Panama invasion. There were "proxy wars"--Nicaragua, El Salvador, Angola, Afghanistan, Morocco, Mozambique. And times when the U.S. did nothing in Haiti and Burma, Somalia and Liberia...
...skeptical about war in general, or a current war in particular, that they do not root for the American side. Journalists regard this characterization as unfair, but audiences may not be so sure. The U.S. public seemed unperturbed when the Pentagon hindered American reporters in covering the invasions of Grenada and Panama...
...more than 40 years, the best antidote to isolationism was the invocation of the Red Menace. When Harry Truman wanted to send troops to Korea and Ronald Reagan decided to invade Grenada, all they had to do was suggest they were stopping the expansion of communism. There was already a political consensus about the nature of the challenge and the rationale for the mission...
Outside theaters the size of Panama and Grenada, the U.S. consistantly has avoided or flubbed unilateral police action. Certainly, in the world wars, no one suggested that it should be mostly Americans who put their lives on the line. Yet, according to recent estimates, 90 percent of the casualties in a Gulf war may be American troops...