Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...earned great admiration for assembling, along with Bush, the coalition against Saddam Hussein. A crucial component of Baker's diplomatic maneuvering was bringing Syrian dictator Hafez Asaad on board with a token force. Baker placed great importance on gaining Damascus' support to emphasize the international nature of opposition to Iraq's belligerency...
...wrong" are for Bush mutable terms, and they change not with moral or factual context but with political need. Many observers claim the president held off on Somalia to avoid accusations of using military muscle for political gain. But Bush, in defending the no-fly zone in southern Iraq, threatened action anyway. Repelling Iraqi aggression was "right." It's more likely that Bush hesitated for the polls' sake and then intervened in the Horn of Africa because he thought historians would like...
...Chinese military to buy 15 jet engines made by Garrett, a division of Allied-Signal. Not only would the sale enhance China's military capability, but it could further destabilize the Middle East by extending the range of Silkworm cruise missiles available to Chinese clients Iran and Iraq -- in certain cases to intercontinental distances, say the Pentagon critics. "Now we wonder, what else did they cut loose?" said a worried top Administration official...
...what one of them calls "air power to compel behavior." Such plans would provide a way to make Serbia suffer for its aggression in Bosnia by bombing Serbia's power plants, fuel dumps, railway lines and bridges, the kind of infrastructure war the U.S. used to soften up Iraq. Cheney touched on this possible course at the NATO meeting last week. "The Secretary is not proposing going ahead with this stuff," says one of his aides, "but he wants NATO to know our thoughts...
...inert shapes of death. These are the images that have finally brought the world to Somalia's rescue. Why did it take so long, when some reporters have been telling the story for months? Such is the power of pictures: people are starving and dying in Liberia, Sudan, southern Iraq, Burma, Peru, yet no massive aid is offered. Humanitarian concern has no logical stopping point, but the world's attention is hard to capture. It is easy to argue that policymakers should not wait for gruesome television footage before they respond. But if images like these are what it takes...