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...President the Commander in Chief of the armed forces and thus able to order them into harm's way. The debates over the constitutional status of an invasion of Haiti have been wildly distorted by partisanship. Democrats who insisted George Bush had to seek congressional approval to start the Persian Gulf War -- as he finally did, successfully -- contend that an invasion of Haiti would be a much smaller, less dangerous undertaking. Comparable, in fact, to the Reagan Administration invasion of Grenada and George Bush's pre-Kuwait invasion of Panama, which the Democrats now retroactively approve. Republicans who backed those...
Before that frontier opened up, scholars had to rely mostly on Chinese and Persian manuscripts for their information. The newly discovered treasures have helped place those manuscripts in context as well as providing valuable clues to the cultural development of Eurasia. Everyday items such as bronze vessels, weapons, clothing and funerary offerings provide a picture of daily life. And the discovery of both Chinese- and Indian-inspired imagery on porcelain and sculpture confirm Mongolia's role in the cultural exchange between China and Eurasia...
Certainly not like the disruptive service we got during the last spectacle, the 1991 fiasco in the Persian Gulf. Nothing can beat Peter Arnett with a satellite dish strapped to his head, fading in and out of our living rooms like a distress call on the Starship Enterprise...
...Victory was never defined -- so the U.S. did not know when it could successfully go home. President George Bush could declare victory in the Persian Gulf War once the U.S.-led alliance pushed Iraqi troops out of Kuwait. But internal conflicts like Somalia -- and Haiti -- require a "realistic assessment" of the "desired end state," Flournoy's report says, "and whether military forces can play a useful role" in achieving it. Will the overthrow of the Haitian junta be enough -- or will it take creation of a working government and economy...
...hasn't set any U.S. military wheelWAR BUDDIES? Even though the Carribean troops likely won't be part of an invasion, TIME's Thompson says, the operations-level staff at the Pentagon is eager to draw a "fig leaf" of international cover over their all-U.S. invasion cast, Persian Gulf-style. If force is used, he says, look for a token contingent from Canada...