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...believe that Americans were not prepared for this new era of limited challenges -- and limited victories. The President's rhetoric suggested the view that only if Saddam Hussein was painted as evil incarnate could Bush rally the people behind him. Left unopposed, the President declared, the takeover of Kuwait would allow Saddam to hold Western economies hostage. On the other hand, Bush hinted, an American victory would help usher in a new world order and improve prospects for peace in the Middle East. Privately, he and his aides were far less ambitious in their predictions of what the war would...
Also, the U.S. figure of 540,000 enemy soldiers in Kuwait and southern Iraq when the war began seems much too high. It was based on satellite photos from which allied commanders counted the number of divisions deployed. But later interviews with prisoners indicated that many of the units were well below their official strength. Prisoner interrogations also hinted that desertions were even higher than the 150,000 the Pentagon estimated. Allied troops at the start of the ground war found the Iraqi defenses surprisingly thinly manned. So there may not have been enough Iraqis on hand to suffer...
...Kuwait offers an opportunity, but I'm not certain that Kuwaitis may not be in the process of missing it. Now is the time when they should be restructuring their constitution, developing some kind of representative assembly and providing for other mechanisms, including media dissent, that allow a safety valve for the expression of discontent without shooting those in power. I realize they have very pressing economic and other problems. But I've never known a society in the history of the world where the quest for bread and the quest for freedom were necessarily in conflict with the quest...
...fires over Kuwait would be evil made visible and billowing. The evil turns the very air black and greasy. It suffocates and blots...
...best, and the worst, of the weekend warriors. Air National Guard fighters and attack planes knocked out Iraqi tanks, and the Air Reserve conducted a huge airlift of troops and materiel. A force composed of the Marine Reserve blasted through Saddam Hussein's defenses and led the way to Kuwait City...