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...from the same stripes," and Republican National Chairman Rich Bond sneered that the Democrats have "written off the rest of the country." Gore, however, does add some strengths to the ticket besides reinforcing its generational and centrist appeal. Like Clinton, he is an adroit balancer: he voted for the Persian Gulf war but maintained party credentials by vigorously defending the patriotism of the many more congressional Democrats who did not. Work on the Senate Armed Services Committee has given him expertise in foreign affairs and arms control, which Clinton lacks. He is a hero to environmentalists, while Clinton has admitted...
...special gift for putting a human face on issues. A staff member since 1985, he has produced trenchant essays on Michael Dukakis' failed presidential aspirations and a moving account of a hometown reception given the body of a young Marine, one of the first American casualties of the Persian Gulf war. Riley also has a keen eye for the nuances of tangled race relations. Raised in Charlotte, N.C., and educated at Wake Forest University, he worked at the Dispatch in Lexington, N.C., where he covered his first cross burning. Mike then went north to study at Harvard's John...
...hotel room so dreary that he drank the contents of the mini-bar, Paul Theroux was continents away from his London home, newly separated from his wife, afraid that he might have cancer (not so, it turned out) and depressed by the prospect of war in the Persian Gulf. "Get me out of here," he said to himself and headed for the wilderness -- because, he wrote, "as long as there is wilderness there is hope...
Consider the gulf war, by now totally misunderstood. New York Times columnist Leslie Gelb writes, "If the Persian Gulf war promised a new era of collective responsibility, Yugoslavia heralds its early demise." But the gulf war promised no new era of collective responsibility. The gulf war was no more collective than the Korean War, also fought under the U.N. flag. It was not the U.N. that reversed Saddam's conquest of Kuwait. It was the U.S. Army, based in Saudi Arabia, helped by Britain and France. Everything else was window dressing...
...comparison is a bit hyperbolic: hardly anyone expects a third World War to blossom from the present fighting in the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina. But in other respects Hassner's comment is right on. The essence of Bush's "new world order," proclaimed shortly before the Persian Gulf war, was that quick, decisive action by international bodies would make the world unsafe for aggression. But when the next test came, in the breakup of Yugoslavia, the U.S. and its European allies floundered...