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...long as the U.S. was involved in relatively small operations with few casualties, like the invasions of Grenada and Panama, it did not seem to matter much that the armed forces were an imperfect mirror of society. The prospect of sizable bloodshed in the gulf, however, has led some to ask whether the current imbalance makes it too easy for the President and Congress to send forces into battle. "If the U.S. military were truly representative of the country, you would have people going through the roof right now," said former Navy Secretary James Webb two weeks...
There is the George Bush who hates more than anything being called a wimp. As an understudy for the post of Commander in Chief, he watched as Ronald Reagan evoked applause on the home front by bombing Tripoli and invading Grenada. Last December Bush tried his own hand at such stuff. He busted a drug lord holed up in Panama. As a result, Manuel Noriega is now awaiting trial in a prison cell in the Miami Metropolitan Correctional Center...
Will such people never learn? The scenarios for war never do justice to the real thing, which is far more horrific than pundits imagine. A war against Iraq would not be like attacking Grenada or Panama. It would almost certainly involve hundreds of thousands of people dying, soldiers and civilians alike. Generals like to talk of "surgical strikes," but surgical strikes usually hit the wrong targets -- like the misguided air raid on Libya in 1986 that wrecked the French embassy and killed Colonel Gaddafi's daughter...
...chastened by public hostility, is less - confrontational about American military policy than it used to be. In addition, reporters face systematic constraints on their efforts to cover U.S. military operations that they would never have tolerated in Vietnam. Partly to blame is the pool system, set up after the Grenada invasion, in which a small group of correspondents, under the Pentagon's rules, is permitted to cover the initial stage of any military action involving U.S. troops. Every time the pool has been called up to report on a real crisis, its work has been severely and unnecessarily thwarted...
...much more likely, though, that Saddam's government was accurate in warning the U.S. that taking it on would not be "like Panama and Grenada." His military arsenal is the largest in the Arab world and is capable of doing extensive damage. At sea, Saddam's modern, Soviet-built magnetic mines are difficult to detect and could be a major menace...