Word: gulf
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...always reluctant to get into foreign wars, preferring neutrality and shrinking from the shedding of blood, even the enemy's. They wanted to stay out of World War II until Pearl Harbor made the choices crystal clear. Even in 1991, with 500,000 troops poised in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. Senate voted only 52 to 47 in favor of attacking Saddam to drive him out of Kuwait. Americans don't like the mission to Bosnia, and they hated the intervention in Haiti...
...wants to do business in Iraq's oil fields, but French officials insist they are not pro-Saddam. They'd like to see the last of him too. But they have no faith in the methods Washington is proposing. Air strikes of the size now gathering steam in the gulf, the French say, are a no-win policy that can only benefit Saddam. The bombs will miss his weapons, kill Iraqi civilians and rally support for Saddam at home and in the Arab world. The French government assumes that after an air strike, Saddam will throw out the U.N. inspectors...
Reagan is also currently getting overdue credit for his part in winning the Cold War. The collapse of the Soviet Union was such a surprise and our attention was diverted so quickly to new worries like the Gulf War and economic recession that Americans never really had a chance to crown the victors. Now they do. Reagan may finally be receiving the applause he deserves for his greatest offscreen victory--sending Marxism-Leninism, in his words, to "the ash-heap of history...
WASHINGTON: The beefed-up American troop presence in the Gulf may be keeping Saddam on his toes, but it's also busting the Pentagon's budget. Deputy Defense Secretary John Hamre told reporters Wednesday that the cost of managing the latest standoff with Iraq has been "well over $600 million." And that's above and beyond the $700 million in ordinary operating costs that congressional bean-counters budgeted for fiscal 1998. With seven months to go, the meter is running...
Compared to the $61 billion Gulf War, of course, an extra few hundred million -- mostly for extra sorties, bigger fuel bills and some "imminent danger pay" for 30,000 U.S. troops -- seems cheap. But in 1991, international contributions brought the U.S. tab down to $7.4 billion. And however thankful Kofi Annan was for that "credible military threat," President Clinton can't start passing the hat this year until all those soldiers actually do something...