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...connection between the attack and goings-on in the Persian Gulf was also discounted...
Still, Clinton must be wary to accept a compromise too readily, or history may look back on today's leaders as appeasers of a dangerous tyrant. Hussein has violated United Nations resolutions and the cease-fire agreement of the Persian Gulf War. He has built weapons stockpiles and furnished his palaces while millions suffer from malnutrition brought on by economic sanctions. He has brutally crushed rebel movements and ethnic and religious dissidents...
...first hint to Saddam that the sky is falling again will come in the darkest hour of the night. He'll hear the whine of dozens of titanium-clad cruise missiles as they arrive in Baghdad from U.S. warships and submarines in the Persian Gulf and perhaps from giant B-52 bombers lumbering in from their Indian Ocean base on Diego Garcia. The cruise missiles will come crashing through the windows and walls of Iraq's main military command-and-communications centers. Over the crump and flame of those explosions will sound the roar of low-flying F-117 stealth...
Even the Air Force acknowledges that the "smart" bombs that wowed the world during 1991's Persian Gulf War did not quite live up to their publicity. They often could not be used in bad weather or could not be fired from far away, or required pilots to guide them to their targets, exposing crews to hostile fire. However, the grainy but riveting videos of U.S. bombs and missiles whistling down enemy smokestacks heralded a new way of waging war from the skies. New weapons with ever increasing accuracy lead the Pentagon to be confident that few will stray, thus...
...success in the Persian Gulf would vindicate all those market patriots bidding up share prices. But because it is so widely expected, success would merely maintain the status quo--not inspire a whole new bull market. And for those who worry about a bungle, stocks of defense contractors, oil producers and oil services companies would be good hedges. Remember, those generals on Wall Street wear suits, not battle fatigues. They don't really know a thing about...