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...There seems to be a role for CSCE in addition to NATO, the European Community and other existing organizations. If, with 34 equal members, CSCE in fact turns out to be little more than a talk shop, that might not be so terrible either. One of the felicities of post-cold war Europe is that many of its problems can now be settled by talking...
...abject poverty, the highest homicide rate in the industrialized world and disgracefully failing schools. Such problems, says Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, are the real measure of what fighting the cold war cost the U.S. "For half a century we put all our best energies and best minds into the issues of the cold war, just as now in the gulf we are putting them into the first post-cold war crisis. The results of that disparity of energy are apparent all around...
Moreover, the crisis has raised doubts about the Pentagon's post-cold war concepts. In his strategic review, Cheney envisioned potential conflict with states that are lightly armed compared with the U.S. Iraq, with the world's fourth largest army and a huge array of Soviet-built tanks and planes, modern missiles and artillery, is not what the Pentagon was planning for. Another rethinking is getting started...
Aside from all the bloodshed, wars waste vast quantities of money -- which this government hasn't got. Just preparing the intervention to protect allegedly threatened Saudi Arabia is costing about $46 million a day (and has just about killed all hope of a post-cold war peace dividend). So far, the valiant resistance to higher oil prices has substantially increased the price of oil, and an actual war with Iraq would undoubtedly increase it a great deal more. The impending recession would deepen and spread around the world. So how is President Bush, who can't even keep the budget...
...special case because the stakes -- oil -- are so high and because Saddam has played such a textbook villain. No such unanimity could be expected if, for example, India invaded Pakistan, Senegal made a move on Gambia, or Bolivia rumbled into Paraguay. In effect, this first test of the post-cold war security structure is a relatively simple one. But that is all the more reason why the forces lined up so uniformly against Saddam must not be allowed to fail...