Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bush's unprecedented freedom of maneuver is the new Soviet- American detente. With Moscow eager to show its more cooperative face to the world (and avoid offending the U.S. when the Soviets need Western economic assistance), a joint U.S.-Soviet condemnation of Iraq was swiftly crafted. Once that was in place, other nations could join Washington without fear of reprisal. But the pieces still needed assembling, and the years Bush spent assiduously courting foreign leaders paid off handsomely. "Call Fahd, call Ozal, say this to this guy, that to another," says a Bush aide who watched his boss calculate...
...Baker and Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze. That was the bright spot in last week's scary news. Therein lies the makings of something that Saddam never intended and Dulles would never have foreseen: an anti-Baghdad pact forged in Washington and Moscow -- an unprecedented and highly promising U.S.-Soviet joint venture in regional security...
...military response? The answer is that Iraq is too strong. The country has 1 million battle-hardened men under arms, plus 500 combat aircraft and 5,500 tanks. The U.S. has no ground troops in the region; its presence is limited to six medium-size ships of the Joint Task Force * Middle East, based on the island of Bahrain. The aircraft carrier Independence is steaming toward a station off the Straits of Hormuz, and the carrier Saratoga will join the Eisenhower in the Mediterranean, but they would be hard pressed to roll back Iraq's army...
...such large numbers to the war zone would take time. Although light airborne forces could arrive in a week, heavy units capable of really dealing with the Iraqis would take more than a month. "If you are going to defeat Iraq," says Admiral William Crowe, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, "it's a hell of a campaign...
...recently as a year ago, such an incursion in the Middle East would probably have caused a fearsome rift between the superpowers. But in the summer of 1990, the Iraqi blitz prompted Washington and Moscow to act in stunning unanimity, each abhorring the raid and demanding, in an unprecedented joint statement, that the invaders retreat. That position was also endorsed by the United Nations Security Council. While all parties were clearly loath to take on the mightiest army in the Arab world -- a force of 1 million fighting men -- the rare convergence of views raised the possibility that Iraq...