Word: gulf
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With the exception of Britain, America's key Gulf War allies--notably France, Russia and Egypt--all oppose the use of force this time around. They urge Clinton to pursue an ill-defined diplomatic solution, ratcheting up the pressure until Saddam blinks. Clinton would love to prevail in that fashion, but he's not holding his breath. He knows that Saddam responds to diplomatic wrist slaps the way a tank does to toy guns. The watered-down resolution passed last week by the U.N. Security Council, which hit Iraq with a ban on official travel, must be laughable...
...underscore the fact, the Pentagon is sending another 32 warplanes to the Gulf, where the aircraft carrier USS George Washington arrived Friday to join the USS Nimitz. And let's not forget the six F-117A stealth fighters arriving in Kuwait. There's more than enough firepower in place now to severely punish Iraq in the event of any interference with the UNSCOM inspections ? the question is, after the events of the last three weeks, will America ever again be diplomatically capable of carrying out an air strike...
...TIME Online?s Special Report on the recent crisis in the Gulf...
...back to work. How did the Russians get Iraq to back down? "The Russians believed the important thing was not to punish Iraq, but to get UNSCOM back in business," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "After all, UNSCOM has destroyed more Iraqi weapons than were destroyed in the entire Gulf...
...Dowell believes the crisis also highlighted problems in Washington's Mideast and Gulf policy, as President Clinton found little support from most of the Gulf War alliance for anything stronger than verbal condemnation of Saddam. "We've retreated from the precipice and that's given us time to rethink what we're going to do," says Dowell. Because even if the game has changed, it's not yet over...