Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have deterred Iraqi commanders or even Saddam from issuing the order. British officers said communications between Baghdad and the field were so disrupted that it might have been impossible for Saddam to transmit the order in any case. Finally, the weather had turned rainy and windy, a less than ideal environment for using gas or nerve agents, and the wind was blowing from the south, which could have carried any chemicals in the air right back into Iraqi faces...
Most of our people were on the move. Cairo bureau chief Dean Fischer interviewed General Norman Schwarzkopf at his Riyadh headquarters and recalled the time last September when the general told him the terrain was ideal for % tank maneuvers. From Cairo, senior correspondent James Wilde reported a mood of apprehension mixed with relief; during the ground war the city was "tense to bursting." Not all our correspondents have war-zone stories to tell. Robert T. Zintl, whose job has been to coordinate the flow of all briefings and pool reports, found the enemy, and it was Arabic street signs...
These situations aren't ideal. But they aren't rape...
...absolutely right; he should be proud that many Arabs like Mr. El-Jeaan have had the courage to reject the intellectual and moral slavery that Pan-Arabism has come to represent. He should be proud that many Arabs like Mr. El-Jeaan cherish the ideal of establishing a "moral paradigm among all the Arab people" which would guarantee justice and self-determination for all the states in the region...
Finally, there is George Bush's New World Order, which, as Bush describes it, is a Totally Unattainable Ideal. We deterred aggression in the Middle East, not the world. We established American military credibility is the Middle East, not the world. America is not the world's policeman, nor should it be, nor can it be, no matter how much Congress inflates our military-industrial complex. If Bush thinks the U.N. would mobilize to defend Ethiopia from Mussolini (as the League of Nations failed to do), he is sadly mistaken...