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Without the advent of a global "pere-stroika" towards enforceable world law and principles, humanity does not stand a chance to peacefully resolve the Iraqi-Kuwaiti or Palestinian Questions or make the U.S. pay the $17 billion it owes Nicaragua for its aggression as ruled by the U.N. World Court...
Armchair strategists speculate that the armored attack to the west might be accompanied by a Marine amphibious landing on the Kuwaiti coast, using high- speed hovercraft and "vertical envelopment" -- meaning helicopters -- to disgorge large numbers of troops onto the beaches. Others envision a key role for the American paratroop units -- the 82nd and 101st Airborne divisions...
...were close to ideal. Late last week there began a period of dark nights with little or no moonlight (favorable to allied troops, whose night-fighting equipment and training are vastly superior to the Iraqis') and high tides (good for a possible amphibious assault by U.S. Marines on the Kuwaiti coast). Saddam met with his corps commanders last week, apparently to decide how to deal with the coming assault. Some allied commanders had expected diversionary Iraqi ground attacks, but they got what appeared to be a diversionary diplomatic offensive instead...
Among other stipulations for withdrawal listed by the Bush spokesperson: Iraq forces must be removed from Kuwait City and prisoners of war released within the pullout's first two days; Iraq must remove booby traps and mines from Kuwait; it must cease destructive actions against Kuwaiti citizens and property, and release Kuwaiti prisoners...
Perhaps the strategic importance of maintaining the relatively pro-Western Kuwaiti and Saudi Arabian regimes outweighed their poor treatment of their citizens. But in light of the abysmal human rights record Hafez el-Assad, America's warming relations with Syria are totally unacceptable. To cut off the hand of the Butcher of Baghdad, we have fallen into the arms of the Devil of Damascus...