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Assistant Professor of Government Eva Bellin, a specialist on Middle East affairs, said Hussein "has nothing to lose" by moving his troops near Kuwait...
Pentagon officials said some Iraqi troop units had pulled back from combat positions near Kuwait's border, citing "fairly broad movement" among the 71,000 soldiers assembled alongside the emirate. President Clinton said he was "hopeful" the withdrawal would gel, but no one in the Administration publicly let their guard down. Indeed, Defense Secretary William Perry reportedly is headed to Kuwait. The United Nations Security Council, meanwhile, spent the day hashing out ideas to nudge Saddam Hussein's men back toward Baghdad, including declaring a wide off-limits zone in southern Iraq and pressing Saddam to sell $1.6 billion worth...
...nursing mothers face severe malnutrition because of food shortages in Iraq. The U.N. Children's Fund said the Iraqi government's recent cutbacks in food rations are responsible; Baghdad blamed the cutbacks on a poor harvest and on U.N. sanctions imposed after Iraq's August 1990 invasion of Kuwait...
...problem with altruism as the prime mover of foreign policy is that altruism is a sentiment, not a strategy. And to paraphrase Lord Palmerston, America has no permanent sentiments, only permanent interests. The Emir of Kuwait, living high on the hog in Saudi Arabia waiting to be returned to his palace by American troops, was no more worthy or sympathetic a figure than Jean-Bertrand Aristide. But it did not matter much. America had more than altruistic reasons for going into Kuwait. Real, tangible, important things were at stake: oil, nuclear weapons, the future of the Middle East...
...insisted George Bush had to seek congressional approval to start the Persian Gulf War -- as he finally did, successfully -- contend that an invasion of Haiti would be a much smaller, less dangerous undertaking. Comparable, in fact, to the Reagan Administration invasion of Grenada and George Bush's pre-Kuwait invasion of Panama, which the Democrats now retroactively approve. Republicans who backed those invasions even though Congress was never consulted in advance now insist the plain sense of the Constitution is that the President must not send troops into combat on his own hook if it can be avoided. Discounting...