Word: hawkishness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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STOPPED SHORT -- SCHWARZKOPF. That headline in the hawkish Washington Times last week stung President Bush into a mercifully brief but nonetheless unfortunate and ironic tiff with the nation's newest idol. Unfortunate because the White House cast it in terms of who said what to whom when, thus obscuring a genuinely important question: Was the cease-fire Bush ordered after 100 hours of the ground war premature? Ironic, because the White House could easily have won that debate...
Wyche Fowler, Georgia. The brickbats tossed at Fowler and fellow Georgia Senator Sam Nunn for their peacenik stance are more likely to wound the folksy freshman. He's the one up for re-election, and he doesn't have Senator Sam's hawkish record...
...Congress opinion is hardening. Senator Bill Bradley, a Democrat not noted for hawkish views, suggested last week that the Senate consider a resolution returning economic links with the Soviet Union to their cold-war sterility. A Foreign Relations Committee staff member believes that "a lot of members aren't going to want to do business with the Soviets while any kind of crackdown is proceeding...
...purely hawkish chords were audible too, of course. "We have to go in there and do tremendous damage," said Chicago dentist Jerald Schwab. "We have to wipe out the military capability of Saddam Hussein permanently and totally. If we don't go to war, we are going to have much greater problems in the future." In Jacksonville an insurance agent by the name of George Bush, who is no relation to the President, said, "We have no other alternative but to go in before Saddam Hussein makes it worse. This maniac only answers at the point...
Still, I chose to stay around for a while and lend support. I heard a couple of speeches and a smattering of applause, but no real commitment from the crowd. Even the hawkish pro-intervention demonstrators in the background seemed to lack real conviction...