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...there should have been no shock. Long before last week's meeting in Budapest of the 53-nation Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, there had been abundant warnings that U.S.-Russian relations were turning sour. Russian officials had tried unsuccessfully to get the U.S.-designed embargo on Iraq's oil sales lifted and had resurrected Moscow's veto in the U.N. Security Council to block an American-backed resolution on Bosnia...
Offering comfort to Dole last week, the former British Prime Minister and co-architect of the war against Iraq said, "Did you ever hear of anything so absurd as to go after the runway but not the aircraft? I must say on the whole, my method of tackling aggression was quite a good one." In a Daily Mail commentary excoriating Hurd, defense analyst and Oxford historian Mark Almond concluded, "Whitehall's indignation at American criticism is all the more heated because it masks a bad conscience." His view was echoed in Washington by a similar criticism of Clinton...
...enough that the Clinton Administration unilaterally stopped enforcing the embargo last month, leaving the NATO allies holding the bag in the Adriatic. Dole would compound the damage to the alliance -- and to embargoes that we care about, such as that against Iraq -- by actually breaking the embargo over British and French objections. And embargo busting is more than just damaging. It is by now ridiculous. The Bosnian government, for whose sake we would presumably be breaking ranks, itself gave up the demand 10 weeks ago. In late September the Clinton Administration, under congressional pressure, was quite prepared...
Finally, those who dismiss Syria's potential to wage war alone against Israel miscalculate; past conflicts are a poor forecast of future battles. In this case, Israeli civilians would face a new threat: a missile attack far harsher than the limited Scud barrage Iraq launched at Tel Aviv during the Gulf War. Syria already possesses the most advanced strategic-weapons capability in the Arab world, and its chemical, biological and ballistic missile programs are proceeding on a crash basis even as Damascus talks peace. A battle utilizing weapons of mass destruction would invariably provoke a punishing Israeli counterstrike, possibly with...
...Force investigator probing the April mishap in which two U.S. Army helicopters were downed by friendly fire over Iraq recommended that no charges be brought against the only pilot facing judicial action (two F-15s were responsible for the shooting). If senior commanders accept the recommendation, only one person -- the senior officer on board the AWACS plane monitoring the area's air traffic -- could face a court-martial for the accident in which 26 people perished...