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...first attack on or near the Iraqi capital in nearly two years, U.S. and British warplanes carried out bombing raids on radar installations and command-and-control targets. Pentagon officials said the raid was launched at Iraqi air defense facilities because of an increasingly sophisticated threat against allied planes patrolling the no-fly zone in southern Iraq, set up at the end of the Gulf...
...Bush readily gave the mission his approval last Thursday. The needs of the military dovetailed neatly with his own: to show Saddam--and Americans and the world--that this Bush will be as tough on Iraq as the preceding one. Although he went off to Mexico while the raid took place (Pentagon officials say the date was chosen for operational reasons several weeks ago) and modestly labeled it "routine," his face and his tone delivered a different message. His Administration regarded Saddam's stepped-up aggression since the first of the year as a test of the new Commander...
Arriving at a fresh approach the entire Administration supports and selling it abroad will be tough. Even if Powell does, the odds on successfully squelching Saddam still look awfully long. In the meantime, Bush has little alternative to the occasional raid. But it is hard to see that these lead to anything other than the same old policy of containment--unless Bush II is ready to finish the job the way Bush I started...
...Bush readily gave the mission his approval last Thursday. The needs of the military dovetailed neatly with his own: to show Saddam - and Americans and the world - that this Bush will be as tough on Iraq as the preceding one. Although he went off to Mexico while the raid took place (Pentagon officials say the date was chosen for operational reasons several weeks ago) and modestly labeled it "routine," his face and his tone delivered a different message. His administration regarded Saddam's stepped-up aggression since the first of the year as a test of the new commander...
...Arriving at a fresh approach the entire administration supports and selling it abroad will be tough. Even if Powell does, the odds on successfully squelching Saddam still look awfully long. In the meantime, Bush has little alternative to the occasional raid. But it is hard to see that these lead to anything other than the same old policy of containment - unless Bush II is ready to finish the job the way Bush I started...