Word: mid-march
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...weeks from the time of enlistment for a soldier to finish training, and often much longer. Since most military analysts and most U.S. military leaders predicted (correctly, it turns out) that the war would be short and would be finished before Ramadan, the Moslem holy time which begins in mid-March, it was obvious that I would not be done with training in time...
...although University spokesperson Peter Costa suggested this week that a decision might be made in mid-March, he did not rule out the possibility of an April announcement...
Corporation members speculated that a decision will probably be reached in mid-March, but may be achieved earlier, Tabak said...
Remember all the chatter about a short war? Well, forget it. "We would prefer not to talk in terms of days or weeks but months," says White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater. About the earliest anybody in the Bush Administration expects victory over Iraq is mid-March; British estimates run to mid-April or so. Which of course would still be short by comparison with World War II, Korea or Vietnam, but hardly the lightning victory that the success of the first air strikes on Baghdad had led some commentators to anticipate...
...members of the royal family had privately told President Bush that they feared "strains in our % society" if Desert Shield continues indefinitely and inconclusively. A top Administration Arabist has predicted that if American forces are still camped in the desert during the holy month of Ramadan, which begins in mid-March, the result could be "an increase in clandestine opposition from religious extremists, with possible destabilizing results." Many Saudis reacted with something like relief to the apparent breakdown of diplomacy last week. If there is to be a military moment of truth, better it come quickly...