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This false everywhere-nowhere dichotomy is the moral pillar of American isolationism. Wherever the American banner has been raised in the past decade -- Grenada, Panama, Nicaragua and now the Persian Gulf -- isolationists have demanded to know, How can we in good conscience oppose bad guys there and not land Marines in Port-au-Prince or Cape Town...
...national allegiance, and military strategy, Hussein and Bush are more alike than we might be led to believe. Hussein has invaded another state (Kuwait), waged war against another country (Iran), and brandishes a reprehensible weapon (chemical warheads). Bush has also invaded another state (Panama), waged war against another country (Nicaragua), and totes an equally menacing chemical weapon (nuclear warheads). The point is that if you are on the receiving end of any one of these demonic policies, it makes very little difference whether the imperial "Satan" or the "Butcher of Baghdad" is at "command and control...
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...
...WEANED on the horrors of Vietnam, sickened by the jingoism of Grenada, appalled by the silence of the Panama invasion. There were "proxy wars"--Nicaragua, El Salvador, Angola, Afghanistan, Morocco, Mozambique. And times when the U.S. did nothing in Haiti and Burma, Somalia and Liberia...
...have no idea when, or how, will end. And, in closing, it may be worth noting that the only two governments in recent memory that might, indeed, have asked their poets for a war poem at such a time--namely, Salvadore Allende's Chile and Daniel Ortega's Nicaragua--were brought down by the government that is now, with the consent of Congress, asking men, women and children to die in the Persian Gulf...