Word: saddamism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...easy to quantify. In the five weeks since the war began, U.S. and coalition aircraft have flown more than 94,000 sorties and dropped 120 million lbs. of explosives on targets in Kuwait and Iraq. But how successful has this awesome display of aerial firepower been in weakening Saddam Hussein's military machine? It all depends on who is answering the question...
According to General H. Norman Schwarzkopf's Central Command in Saudi Arabia, the answer is very successful, or Saddam would not be trying to extricate his army from Kuwait. Last week Schwarzkopf told the Los Angeles Times that Iraq's armed forces had been so badly damaged that they were "on the verge of collapse." For the past two weeks, Schwarzkopf's aides maintain, allied smart bombs have been knocking out Iraq's main battle tanks at the rate of 100 a day. At week's end they announced Iraq had lost, at a minimum, 1,685 tanks...
...forces are, and that is to inspect them after the war is over. "Every country that attempted bomb-damage assessment in modern history has been proved wrong once analysts had a chance to visit the battlefield," says Anthony Cordesman, a Washington-based expert on Iraq's military. But Saddam Hussein probably has a pretty good idea what condition his troops are in. His last-minute attempts to strike a deal last week may be the best bomb-damage assessment of them...
Americans, haunted by the stern visage of Woodrow Wilson, are loath to confess that they do not act for reasons of morality alone. We would rather not admit that one reason to resist Saddam Hussein is that we are not prepared to see the economies of the West wrecked by the ambition of a foreign tyrant. Indeed, some American critics think it a fatal moral criticism of the gulf war to say that if Kuwait had only sand and no oil, the U.S. would not have rushed to its defense...
...everywhere. It has to have priorities. One cannot equate the utter devastation of Kuwait with the cruel but hardly fatal repression of Lithuania. There is no doubt that under Gorbachev or his generals, Lithuania will continue to exist as a society. There can be little doubt that under Saddam, Kuwait will...