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...Noriega forces but the rebels as well. Moreover, some units of the Dignidad paramilitary forces and the Doberman riot-control units, though badly trained and disciplined, might have resorted to subsequent guerrilla warfare. That would endanger not just American troops but also the 50,000 U.S. civilians living in Panama...
Bush has been hailed for his restraint in the troubles besetting the Soviet Union, China, Poland, Hungary and, earlier, Panama. But there has always lurked the probability that sooner rather than later, U.S. muscle would be needed to subdue a tyrant. In the minds of many, a doubt has lingered from last year's presidential campaign over whether Bush had the heart to use power. The explanations of inaction from his Secretaries of State and Defense and his White House staff have echoes of almost every sad incident of our times, going back to Pearl Harbor. Bush's caution will...
...oldest rule in the exercise of power is that if a nation tells the world it wants to get rid of a corrupt government, as the U.S. did in Panama, that nation had better have the means and the will to carry it through once an opportunity develops." So spoke old cold warrior Richard Helms, former director of the CIA, last week...
That the situation in Panama was confused and information inadequate is nothing new for such incidents. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, a crisis manager of considerable success, claims that in almost every crunch there is never enough information and always uncertainty, and the final decision must frequently ride more on a President's intuition than his briefing books. That is what leadership is all about...
...President. We know that young Panamanian officers responded to U.S. pressure to rid their country of Manuel Noriega, that we were aware of the plot, involved to some undetermined degree and that a few yards away were some of the 12,000 trained and armed American troops stationed in Panama. Does opportunity ever knock so hard...