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...COLD WAR IS PROVING TO BE A dangerous passage for all concerned: winners, losers and bystanders. Two years ago, Saddam Hussein concluded that the demise of the Soviet Union as a superpower had created a regional vacuum he could fill. The result was the invasion of Kuwait and Desert Storm. Last year a clique of Serbian Marxists tried to maintain its authority over other South Slavs who no longer needed Belgrade to protect them from Moscow. The result was the Balkan cataclysm...
...GEORGE BUSH finds recent polls gloomy, he can very well cheer himself up with the rosy sentiments flowing from Kuwait. The President is still vastly popular in the oil-rich country. So much so in fact that the U.S. embassy there has tactfully had to refuse offers from Kuwaitis eager to help bankroll | the presidential campaign. "We'd rather stay with the man we know," says one Kuwaiti. With such excitement, one wouldn't guess that the country is about to hold its own parliamentary elections next month. Gatherings meant to discuss local politics are now dominated by satellite...
Today only six states in the world are overtly hostile to the U.S.: Cuba, Iraq, Iran, Libya, North Korea and Syria. Of these, Iraq boasted by far the largest armed forces at the time of the Kuwait invasion. Driving the Iraqis out of Kuwait required 427,000 U.S. fighters, or 22% of the Pentagon's uniformed personnel at that time. None of the five other hostile states comes close to matching Iraq's pre-1991 strength on the ground or in the air. Moreover, the U.S. would almost certainly have allies in future combat against any would-be aggressor: South...
...Bush's no-fly zone in Iraq, his running mate grabbed the microphone to make a politically adroit addendum. Gore pointed out that Bush helped create the problem by allowing Saddam Hussein to continue his internal air war against the Shi'ites and Kurds after the liberation of Kuwait. This was a small but telling illustration of how Gore buttresses Clinton on two issues where the Arkansas Governor is weak: foreign policy and the environment...
Ever since U.S. Intelligence was caught flat-footed when Iraq invaded Kuwait, it has faced renewed criticism for placing too much emphasis on technology and too little on actual spies. As one spook puts it: "You can't tell what's going on in Saddam Hussein's head from satellite surveillance." CIA Director ROBERT GATES is now looking for a few good men and women and has set up a human-intelligence center to coordinate the spook efforts of his agency, the State Department and the military services...