Word: provenances
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cannot trust dictators. Unfortunately, the U.S. has proven itself as willing to climb into bed with Assad's Syria as it was to consort with Pinochet's Chile, Marcos' Phillipines and even Hussein's Iraq. Nasty governments do not necessarily make inexpedient allies...
...Historical evidence has proven that the use of air power does not necessarily win the war," says Trainor. "In World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, it had little impact...
Recent events in the Persian Gulf have proven that point once again. In the beginning of his presidency, George Bush courted Iraq's Saddam Hussein with aid and arms and continued U.S. negotiations with Yassir Arafat of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). But the events preceding and during the Gulf War have made it clear that United States interests lie in a unique and firm alliance with Jewish state, not with Arab dictators...
...potential to kill hundreds of thousands of people, many of them entirely innocent, and to politically destabilize the Middle East for years to come, should not be undertaken unless the peace and security of the entire world is threatened. In order to justify this war, several things must be proven...
...even if all of those things could be proven--which they have not been and, I believe, cannot be--it would still be necessary to prove that Saddam Hussein could not be stopped by economic sanctions and diplomacy. Note that the U.N. authorized force, but neither required it nor recommended it. The refusal of the administration to negotiate or even to consider offering any face-saving compromise, and its patent eagerness to rush into war after only a few months of sanctions tell us all we need to know here; sanctions and diplomacy were never given a chance...