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WHEN my brother invited me to accompany him to a White House reception for David Donald, the Charles Warren Professor of American History, I bragged to my friends I was going to give President Bush my full analysis of the Panama invasion...
...only natural that a red-blooded American who has repeatedly been called a wimp should derive a certain satisfaction from the sudden accusation that he is actually a bully. Hence the strutting, how-do-you-like-them-apples? comments coming from the White House just after the invasion of Panama...
...Soviet Union finally seemed to be getting out of that business. The Kremlin did some remonstrating of its own. At their Malta meeting, Mikhail Gorbachev had complained to Bush about the U.S.'s military muscle flexing during the attempted coup in the Philippines; now here was Uncle Sam in Panama, again seeming to relegitimize the use of force...
Then there was another awkward feature of the operation: maybe it was a just cause, but it was hardly a fair fight. The ratio of the U.S.'s population to Panama's is 100 to 1. Factor in the overwhelming superiority of the American military, and it might as well be 1,000 to 1. Similar odds prevailed during Ronald Reagan's conquest of Grenada in 1983 and his eleven-minutes-over-Libya bombing raid against Muammar Gaddafi in 1986. A none-too-edifying pattern is emerging in the late 20th century. Since conflicts between nuclear-armed big boys...
...overseas reaction. In general, he is a good listener, unusually so for a politician. He is also very much a foreign policy President. He savors and nurtures his personal relationships with other leaders. A number of those he consulted said that whatever the provocation and even justification for attacking Panama, there would be a price to pay abroad. That message meant at least as much to Bush as the gloating of his political advisers over the payoff at home. To his credit, he seemed genuinely embarrassed when the bumptious Republican National Committee chairman Lee Atwater rushed to treat Noriega like...