Word: quos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some Saudi liberals seek U.S. support for their campaign for change. "We hope the American presence is not just protection for the status quo," says a businessman. "We assume it will bring an improvement in the integrity of the government." From Washington's viewpoint, however, pushing Fahd and family down the fast track to Westernization and democratization is a likely prescription for a Shah-like disaster. Swift liberalizations could easily stir religious extremists to revolt. "If there's an internal threat to the kingdom," says a U.S. expert on Saudi Arabia, "it's from fundamentalists on the right, not liberalizers...
...embargo's long- term effectiveness leads logically to battle, so the Administration's goal of crippling the worst of Saddam's war-fighting capacity appears unattainable without resort to force. The President has danced around this objective for weeks, but the evidence grows that merely restoring the status quo ante will not yield "security and stability" in the gulf, one of Bush's publicly stated goals. As he told Congress last week, America wants "to curb the proliferation of chemical, biological, ballistic-missile and, above all, nuclear technologies...
...Democratic predominance of the Bay State also works in its favor, even this year, a time of public disenchantment with the status quo...
...Israelis staunchly backed Cheney's view that it is wiser to dispose of Saddam now than face graver peril doing so later. But the opposing camp, led by National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft, won out with its admonition against expanding U.S. war aims beyond restoration of the status quo ante. Scowcroft feared that the U.S. might not be able to sustain domestic and international support long enough to remove Saddam from power, which would probably require military action. "Nobody in the world was willing to go to war for that objective before the invasion of Kuwait," said one senior official...
...battle over educational vouchers blurs ideological lines by pitting theorists of the right and the left against cautious centrist reformers and the custodians of the educational status quo. The idea was popularized by economist Milton Friedman in his 1962 conservative classic, Capitalism and Freedom. Liberal activists then gave the notion a brief vogue in the early 1970s as an experiment sponsored by the Office of Economic Opportunity. The Reagan Administration tepidly tried to revive vouchers in the mid-1980s, and George Bush gave lip service to the concept during the 1988 campaign. But the current intellectual momentum stems from...