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...collective responsibility, Yugoslavia heralds its early demise." But the gulf war promised no new era of collective responsibility. The gulf war was no more collective than the Korean War, also fought under the U.N. flag. It was not the U.N. that reversed Saddam's conquest of Kuwait. It was the U.S. Army, based in Saudi Arabia, helped by Britain and France. Everything else was window dressing...
...Yugoslavia was -- or is -- prepared to go to war against him. Military intervention, most believe, would be likely to land outside powers in a Vietnam-style quagmire and cost them heavy casualties. There may be universal outrage at the human carnage, but unlike Iraq's grab for oil-rich Kuwait, Serbia's depredations against Croatia and Bosnia do not threaten the strategic interests of the U.S. or European neighbors enough to justify the risks of sending in troops...
...point to the kind of experience that no mere Governor of Arkansas or Texas businessman can claim. Even the imperfect victory over Iraq, which failed to push Saddam out of power, is a Bush triumph in one crucial respect: it achieved the declared aim of ousting Saddam from Kuwait...
...MIDSUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM IN THE AMAZON FOREST, Joao Caetano Theater, Rio, May 15 to Dec. 15 In this elaborate production directed by German filmmaker Werner Herzog, Puck is transported to the contemporary Brazilian rain forest. The play opens with a Herzog film documentary on the ecological devastation of Kuwait...
Well, kiss my chicken-fried steak. I didn't know Kuwait made a million dollars a day. I'm settin' there thinkin', "Damn. This is gonna be an embarrassing correction." Then the phone rings, and an operator says, nasally, "H. Ross Perot calling collect for Molly Ivins. Will you accept the charges...