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2. Maintain American credibility. Once the U.S. made its initial rhetorical commitments to Israel, it could not afford to rescind them. In the zero-sum bipolar world, the U.S. feared that nonsupport for one of its allies would send others scurrying to the Soviet Union for protection. In the spirit...
But Bush's initial rhetorical enthusiasm for sanctions and his engineering of a burst of U.N. resolutions convinced many people in the U.S. and elsewhere that he thought economic pressure, combined with the threat of force, could do the job. They were understandably startled when he almost doubled the size...
It is impossible to separate those two events. They form a package. Once the rifles were truly drawn, once the liberation of Kuwait, no more than a rhetorical goal during the first days of the crisis, became the real objective of policy, an ultimatum was shrewd strategy. "The advantage of...
The Horton ploy worked as well as it did because Michael Dukakis responded feebly. Determined to fight back this time, the Democrats began rhetorical carpet bombing a month ago. Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder sent Bush an open letter admonishing him to practice "moral leadership." The ideal of equal opportunity, Wilder...
Yes, the duplicity and horror of the Vietnam War should be recognized and assiduously avoided. But contemporary anti-war protestors invoke the memories of Vietnam as a cheap rhetorical device. Regardless of the legitimacy of U.S. involvement in the Persian Gulf, that intervention should not be equated with the war...