Word: saddamism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spat started when David Frost interviewed for public television the top allied commander in the gulf. Schwarzkopf said he had recommended that the U.S. keep fighting, since his troops could have "made it a battle of annihilation" that, by inference, would have finished Saddam's regime. To many listeners, it sounded like a man praising his boss's magnanimity, but Bush decided he could not afford the impression that he had "wimped out," as an aide put it. His advisers put out word that the general had raised no objection when Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell phoned Schwarzkopf...
...answer almost certainly is no. Doubtless Schwarzkopf's troops could have destroyed more of the troops and armor that Saddam is using to suppress the revolts that broke out almost as soon as the war ended. But that would have meant continuing a horrible "turkey shoot" of fleeing Iraqi forces after the war had effectively been won. The allies' goals were to drive Saddam's forces out of Kuwait and cripple Iraq's offensive military capacity. Both had been achieved before the 100 hours were...
Continuing the war would have been seen by the world, with reason, as a pointless snuffing out of lives. Critics may argue that the same Iraqi soldiers who were spared went on to slaughter anti-Saddam rebels. But on balance the decision to stop the bloodshed the moment victory was assured was right -- and very American...
Travel may have picked up since the guns stopped firing five weeks ago, but Saddam Hussein's war is still claiming victims. Chicago-based Midway Airlines, its strength sapped over the winter by the war-induced spike in fuel prices and slump in travel, flew into the shelter of Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last week, joining recent arrivals Continental Airlines and Pan Am (with TWA circling overhead). Midway's jets continue to fly, thanks in part to a $40 million loan from Continental Bank, which will be first to be repaid if the airline fails in its attempt to reorganize...
...Saddam Hussein was not Midway's only problem: the airline hobbled itself in 1989 by agreeing to pay Eastern Airlines more than $100 million for a hub in Philadelphia. But with a deepening recession, fuel prices that more than doubled with the gulf crisis and cutthroat competition in the Northeast corridor, Midway was forced to retreat and put its Philadelphia gates back on the block last year. The company ended up selling those operations to USAir for only $64.5 million. Mainly as a result of that sale, Midway posted a $139.2 million loss last year. Yet with completion...