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...Victory was never defined -- so the U.S. did not know when it could successfully go home. President George Bush could declare victory in the Persian Gulf War once the U.S.-led alliance pushed Iraqi troops out of Kuwait. But internal conflicts like Somalia -- and Haiti -- require a "realistic assessment" of the "desired end state," Flournoy's report says, "and whether military forces can play a useful role" in achieving it. Will the overthrow of the Haitian junta be enough -- or will it take creation of a working government and economy...
Neither Baker nor Cheney believes returning Aristide to power in Haiti will encourage other Caribbean countries to become more democratic. In fact, both discredit signal sending as particularly important in foreign affairs, except as a "negative incentive," says Baker. "I never thought our resolve in getting Saddam out of Kuwait would deter the Serbs in Bosnia or the coup that overthrew Aristide," explains Cheney in an analysis Baker shares. "It doesn't work that way unless, like Clinton, you talk loudly about using force and then fail to follow through. When you project weakness consistently you do embolden bad guys...
...Senate, also provides $15 million for medical research and $50 million for counseling for Gulf War veterans and their families. More than 700 U.S. troops have reported symptoms that include fatigue, hair loss and intestinal and respiratory problems. Suspected causes include the oil fires set by Iraqi forces in Kuwait during the 1991 war and immunizations given by the U.S. Army for protection against gas warfare...
However, economic support from contrastingly wealthy Muslim states like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait has been scant. Even King Hussein of Jordan, a arguably the PLO's greatest ally in the past ten years, has not made a huge effort to aid the Palestinians. In the case of the prosperous oil states, this lack of assistance should not come as a surprise. Palestinians are the manual laborers, the servants, and in every way the second-class citizens of these kingdoms built on black gold...
Second, and most significant in an era when coalition building is deemed a necessary requisite to military action, sanctions are an important step up the ladder to war. It took half a million troops to dislodge Saddam Hussein from Kuwait, but the alliance probably never would have come together if the sanctions that preceded the conflict had not invested America and its partners with a common sense of frustration at Baghdad's refusal to budge in the absence of force. The need to repel Iraq was appreciated because the world wanted the Middle East's oil at affordable prices...