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...Somalia just pile on in layers, forming a callous around the conscience. Brought face to face one more time with starvation, the world did not just shrug. And pictures gave other conflicts their own unforgettable faces. Some of the video-game visuals from last year's fighting in the Persian Gulf were strangely antiseptic, an invitation to forget that war is the mass production of individual suffering. The photographs from Bosnia-Herzegovina, where war has become serial killing under the guise of politics, made us remember...
...drugs and into Kuwait to protect the flow of oil -- vital national interests indeed. In both cases, President Bush stressed America's moral motivations. But James Baker made the gaffe (defined as a politician's accidentally telling the truth) of admitting that the reason for going into the Persian Gulf was "jobs, jobs, jobs...
...closest that the U.S. came to giving primacy to moral concerns was the postscript to the Persian Gulf War, when Saddam Hussein was prevented from slaughtering the Kurds. Two decades earlier, after secretly encouraging the Kurds to rebel, the U.S. had callously cut them off when they no longer served its interests; in explaining this decision to a closed hearing, Kissinger gave a classic exposition of realpolitik: "Covert action should not be confused with missionary work." Given America's moral streak, such an approach tends to require secrecy. Bush did not have that option: a barrage of pictures of suffering...
...exquisite in their order, entitle him to be seen as perhaps the greatest psychotic artist whose work has come down to us. And some are known only to specialists. Among these are Heinrich Hermann Mebes (1842-?), whose tiny visionary-symbolist watercolors fall somewhere between Philipp Otto Runge and Persian miniatures; and Friedrich Schroder-Sonnenstern (1892-1982), with his fearsome moralizing fantasies; and the mental patient Karl Brendel (1871-1925), whose tiny, intense woodcarvings are so close in spirit to German Expressionist sculpture...
...question-and-answer session after his speech focusing on foreign policy, Mulroney said the U.N. should follow the example of initiatives in the Persian Gulf and the Korean War to make the peace...