Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while Washington strives to contain his disruptive ambitions. Whenever Saddam sends out his tanks, American planes and missiles are bound to respond: force must always be met with force under the unwritten rules of engagement heavily determined by American politics. This war will end only with the demise of Iraq's resilient bully-boy leader, and as last week's exchange of fire proved, it is far from over...
Crises in the Gulf are always complicated, but this one has proved byzantine beyond the norm. The Kurds of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (K.D.P.) are fighting the Kurds of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (P.U.K.) with the help of Iraq and Iran respectively. At the same time, both factions are living under the protection of the U.S. Saddam's Republican Guard attacked Kurdish towns in northern Iraq, and high above the Persian Gulf, aging U.S. B-52s launched computer-guided cruise missiles at military installations far to the south. At what seemed to be the end of it all, Saddam...
...fact, what flared up last week was two rather separate wars, connected by the thuggish intentions of Saddam Hussein. War A, let's call it, is a nasty struggle for autonomy, power, money and influence among the fractious Kurds in northern Iraq and the sometime-friend, sometime-foe regional powers of Iraq, Iran and Turkey. An alphabet soup of rival Kurds locked in a cynical game of cooperation and betrayal want independence but fight each other more ferociously than anyone else. As the overseer of the Kurd safe haven established after the 1991 Gulf War, the U.S. is only tangentially...
...more dangerous than firing cruise missiles," TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson says. "But that is the only way to get rid of the Iraqi surface-to-air defense missiles." The move came in response to an Iraqi missile launched at a U.S. F-16 fighter jet patrolling northern Iraq. U.S. forces were unable to locate the battery to return fire when the Iraqis apparently turned their radar off seconds after firing the missile. In another tweaking of the U.S., Iraqi aircraft also violated the new, expanded no-fly zone in southern Iraq. "The U.S. will take some action, the question...
...attacks may be launched. So far, no Iraqi planes have taken up the challenge. The United States launched the missile attacks after Iraqi forces went into action last weekend, supporting one Kurdish faction against another in a military campaign the U.S. condemns as brutal. While international condemnation of Iraq's actions has been strong, support for the U.S. retaliation has been mixed. Britain, Germany and Israel approve of the U.S. move, while France and sometime Iraqi ally Russia deplore the missile strikes. The most telling effect of international disapproval is the hold up in Iraq's return to the world...