Word: patriot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...almost no one, is talking censorship. The question is the responsibility of the media themselves. In wartime, when young men and women are preparing to give up their lives, shouldn't the media be decently prepared to give up some of their freedom? Are they (we) journalists first or patriots? Patriot missiles stop Saddam's weapons from reaching their targets. Shouldn't journalistic patriots do the same...
...ground fighting commences. No doubt, some will. But the same public opinion polls that now show war approval rates as high as 90 percent also reveal that a growing majority expects a long and hard struggle. Far from being just temporarily titilated by the precision of smart bombs and Patriot missiles, Americans appear willing to stomach the messiness inflicted by tanks and rifles...
EXPECT Republican candidates to pound their opponents for voting against popular weapons systems like the Patriot and the F-117A Stealth Fighter. To be sure, both parties deserve credit for the current military success in the Gulf. Development of the Tomahawk cruise missile and the Stealth fighter program, for example, took place during the Carter Administration...
...this debate, as in others like it, the Republicans enjoy the ultimate advantage. They will intensify demands for continued funding of the Strategic Defense Initiative, which uses Patriot-like technology. And they will no doubt remind voters that many Democrats opposed deployment of sea-launched cruise missiles for arms control purposes. Candidates might pose blunt questions like, "How many more pilots would have died had the Democrats been able to kill the Tomahawk...
...Iraqi Scud strike on the northern Saudi city of Hafr al-Batin was intercepted by a Patriot missile...