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...done so on August 10, when the Arab League narrowly passed a resolution formally condemning Iraq? Why has he not formally done so now, six months later? The reason is simply because he, like many in the Middle East, lacks moral fortitude. Until there is a moral paradigm amongst all the Arab people, the Pan-Arab dream will remain only a factor to differentiate between Kuwaitis and Palestinians, Saudis and Yemenis, "haves" and "have-nots"--with the latter believing and the former condemning...
...political repercussions of the war will, of course, ultimately depend on its outcome. Informed by the Vietnam paradigm, conventional wisdom holds that a bloody war that inflicts thousands of American casualties will ruin Bush come 1992. The Bush presidency does indeed stand at a "defining hour." A short and swift victory ensures Bush's reelection; a protracted and painful struggle may send him packing...
...staff opinion questions Bush's sincerity when he calls for a "New World Order" that ignores the transgressions of political allies, yet it offers an alternative paradigm that justifies violent intervention and large-scale international conflict. One must ask, what kind of ideal is that which seeks "peace" through war? We've done that already--that was the "Old Order...
...Paradigm is above all struggling toward a working model for the information age. The great totalitarianisms of the 20th century (Stalin's, Hitler's) depended upon the dictator's power to isolate the people and control their minds by controlling all information. The great work of inspiring the democracies also required heroic manipulations of image and information -- by F.D.R., by Churchill, for example. Such leaders gave an eloquence and resonance to the Old Paradigm -- a powerful accumulation of moral experience. It is possible to feel wistful sometimes for those profound frames of reference while wandering around in the New Paradigm...
...fragment of poetry by the Greek Archilochus recorded these enigmatic lines: "The fox knows many things, the hedgehog knows one big thing." In a famous essay, Isaiah Berlin described Tolstoy as a fox who knew many things and Dostoyevsky as a hedgehog who knew one big thing. The Old Paradigm knew one big thing (centralized government, one organizing ideology, one big idea). The New Paradigm is a fox that accommodates many things -- it is decentralized, undoctrinaire, pragmatic, multifaceted...