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...PEOPLE'S BUSINESS," AS the work of the U.S. Congress is often called, began on a note of high drama back in January 1991, when members of the 102nd class of representatives debated the wisdom of going to war in the Persian Gulf. How quickly they fell. From the sordid hearings concerning the sexual proclivities of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to bounced checks at the House Bank and mismanagement at the House Post Office, this Congress thereafter rarely contrived to escape the mire of its own making. And when on occasion it did, its effectiveness was usually blunted...
...reinforce their "yuppies-for-change" image. Moreover, Gore's presence helps compensate for certain Clinton weaknesses. Clinton has no Washington experience; Gore does. Clinton has had serious marital troubles; Gore has not. Clinton did not serve in Vietnam; Gore did. Clinton has equivocated on the Persian Gulf War; Gore supported it (although he has lately taken aim at the Bush Administration's policy toward Iraq both before and after...
...Vice President to assess the intentions of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. But Bush brought up Iraq himself as a way of dodging a politically tricky question about arms sales to Iran. To the Vice President in 1988 -- two years before Iraq invaded Kuwait -- stability in the Persian Gulf was a triumph of Reagan-era diplomacy. "Should we have listened to my opponent who wanted to send the U.N. into the Persian Gulf?" Bush asked rhetorically. "Or in spite of the mistakes of the past, are we doing better there? How is our credibility with the GCC ((Gulf Cooperation Council)) countries...
...weapons of the future will look like they came straight out of Star Wars or RoboCop: everything from hand-held laser swords to autonomous robots programmed to kill. The long-term trend, as demonstrated in the Persian Gulf last year, is toward short battles conducted at long distance by increasingly intelligent machines. Defense experts predict that the next arms race will be to develop the smartest, stealthiest and most accurate weapons and to demonstrate their superiority convincingly enough in advance to avoid risking lives and expensive hardware on the battlefield...
Bush, his surrogates and many pundits talked a lot at the end of the Persian Gulf War about how its success had exorcised the demons of Vietnam. In reality, though, U.S. military policy has only taken a first step. We have overcome our total reluctance to using force. But like a baby learning to walk, our government still clings to the doctrine of invincible force as a security blanket against another fall...