Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even as Saddam talked peace, Pentagon officials were worried that his troops were dragging their feet in an apparent retreat from the Kuwaiti border: at least two Iraqi brigades reportedly stopped near the southern city of An Nasiriya. U.S. Marines, meanwhile, staged a practice landing in Kuwait. Defense Secretary William Perry said American troops could head home in a few weeks if all goes well...
Thousands of U.S. troops continued to stream into the Persian Gulf region, despite surer signs of retreat by Saddam Hussein's forces. This morning, Saudi Arabia and five smaller oil nations -- Oman, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Kuwait itself -- began deploying much of their 19,000-man "Peninsula Shield" in Kuwait, enough to match the number of U.S. forces now on Kuwaiti soil. Meanwhile, the U.S. operation's Central Command tells TIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompson that Iraq's forces are in close to full flight back north -- including what is believed to be the best of Saddam...
America fled Somalia after 18 Army Rangers died because the cost of the operation became apparent. But there was a more visceral reaction propelling our retreat: a sense of betrayal. Here we are doing this for the Somalis, for no benefit to ourselves, and this is how they repay us! To hell with the ingrates...
...Haitian police and army have been formally defanged, the more shadowy tentacles of the junta remain, the notorious "attaches." They will not retreat until the military government no longer has power. And disarming them will be a difficult task; their weapons are not held in armories but in private homes around the country...
...home that is not so remarkable. Political reality routinely demands compromise. And to be sure, Clinton has shown flashes of political courage and persistence, most notably in winning passage of NAFTA. But in the exercise of military power, and especially when one leads the world's lone superpower, retreat is contemptible. Consider the two other showcases of horror Clinton pledged to redress before Haiti. "History has shown that you can't allow the mass extermination of people and just sit idly by and watch it happen," said the President about Bosnia. That of course is exactly what we have done...