Word: retreating
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Democrats begin every call for retreat with the ringing assertion that the Persian Gulf is indeed a vital American interest and the United States will not be run out of the region. But they then set conditions for U.S. action in the gulf that are impossible to meet. The favored technique for doing this is to demand that the United States not act alone. Where are the allies? they complain. After all, it is their oil and not ours that is flowing through the gulf. They should join us in any military action. If they don't act, why should...
...most foreign policy crises, such is the case. The only country in a position to act is the U.S. To fob off the responsibility on allies, who we know in advance are in no position to act, is to declare, in the most pious multilateral tones, an American retreat...
...that the Bakkers and their cronies had siphoned huge sums of money from PTL and allegations that Jim had been involved in homosexual activity. Four weeks ago, Bakker was ousted from the ministry by the Assemblies of God, a major Pentecostal denomination. Jim and Tammy fled to their handsome retreat in Palm Springs, Calif., from which Jim sent messages indicating that at some point he hoped to reclaim his domain...
...Nightline, Bakker, musing about a possible return to PTL, proposed to set up a new 25-member board to govern the organization. The notion of the Bakkers' making a comeback might seem incredible, but supportive mail has poured in to the Palm Springs retreat. Some Pentecostals think Bakker could try to set up a clone of Heritage USA in California, or an independent Charismatic congregation somewhere. Indeed, one Chattanooga, Tenn., TV station has already offered to help Bakker launch a new gospel show. Says the Rev. Tommy Barnett, of the flourishing (15,000-member) Phoenix First Assembly...
...American public should decide that the nation has no worthwhile role to play in the Persian Gulf or that the commitment there is not worth the price, it would be the most serious retreat yet from the leadership role the U.S. assumed after World War II. Until that time, Britain had considered the Middle East part of its sphere of influence and sought to protect Western interests there. Britain's global retreat in the wake of the war marked the emergence of America's world role. Washington resisted Soviet probes into Iran in 1946, and since then has played...