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Wolfowitz has built a following, thanks to his prescience. In the 1970s he advocated bolstering the U.S. military presence in the Persian Gulf to deter Iraq from someday invading Kuwait or Saudi Arabia. He helped shape the hard-line Reagan-era policies toward the Soviet Union that conservatives credit with ending the cold war. In 1990 he called for pre-emptive strikes against enemy states trying to obtain weapons of mass destruction--precisely the shift in U.S. strategy that the Administration announced last fall. But other proposals by Wolfowitz have been dismissed as reckless--such as his suggestion during...
...more the U.S. readies itself for war, the more jittery people are asking whether the juggernaut can be stopped. For months, President Bush has performed a dizzying two-step, insisting that he has not decided to invade Iraq, even as the U.S. pours forces into the Persian Gulf to convince Saddam Hussein that he will. Surely and steadily, U.S. strategists have moved forward with their plans to put 100,000 soldiers into the region by Feb. 1. By Jan. 27, the day set for the U.N.'s weapons inspectors to report their first formal findings to the Security Council, they...
...talks to determine the body's exact role in the breakaway republic. Moscow had insisted that the OSCE limit itself to providing humanitarian aid, but the 55-nation body wanted to continue monitoring human rights. The OSCE was the last international organization to maintain a permanent presence in Chechnya. PERSIAN GULF Military Might The U.S. accelerated its military buildup in advance of a possible war against Iraq. Washington mobilized an additional 50,000 troops to join the 60,000 already surrounding Iraq, bringing the total to well over 100,000. A similar-size force is on standby in Europe...
...hawk during the Persian Gulf crisis and clashed frequently with Powell, who was cautious about using the military to expel Iraq from Kuwait. But Cheney never strayed far from the official line coming out of the White House. He asked early on after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait whether the U.S. should consider overthrowing Saddam Hussein, but abandoned the idea quickly. It fell to Cheney to secure support from Arab leaders for pushing Saddam out of Kuwait, support gained with the promise that the U.S. had no intention of marching to Baghdad. Like the other principal players in that...
West African oil is low in sulphur, which makes it easy to refine. Because most of it lies offshore, foreign oil companies don't have to deal much with locals beyond a few government officials and hired labor. Transport is easy too, with no pesky Persian Gulf or Suez Canal to navigate. Recent fighting in Ivory Coast is a symbol of West Africa's volatility, "but it is not as dangerous as the Middle East," says George Ayittey, of the African Oil Policy Initiative Group, a lobbying group based in Washington. The National Intelligence Council, a Washington think tank, expects...