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...excuse--nay, pat on the back--the foot-soldiers of this allegedly immoral war is downright scary. It is inconsistent to argue the immorality of Desert Storm while giving the moral green light to American soldiers in Saudi Arabia. Carried to its logical conclusion, such a stance would sanction the most morally despicable conduct by individuals--so long as they were only following orders...
...scary to imagine a world--and an America--where people are allowed to just follow orders. It is a world that would sanction moral atrocities like those committed by Nazi guards, Selma police and South African security forces. Is that the kind of world that anti-war activists want...
...Stephen M. Haggard, associate professor of government. "First was the putting together of the coalition in the United Nations for the passage of the January 15 deadline. Second was the November deployment of troops which shifted [the conflict] from a defensive to offensive status. The decisions were against the sanction strategy...
Wednesday night, the sanction-based strategy was unfortunately discarded. Now that this mistake has been made, we can only hope against hope for as quick and bloodless a victory as possible. An indefinite suspension of the offensive or the withdrawal of American troops from the region would undermine the legitimate objectives of the U.S.-led coalition and would likely lead to greater instability and bloodshed in the Gulf...
...director of Denver's Silverado S&L, which collapsed in 1988 at a cost of $1 billion to the U.S. When Judge Daniel Davidson issued his decision, he declared that Bush had broken conflict-of-interest rules. The judge ordered Bush to avoid future conflicts, a mild sanction. But the OTS lawyers' cryptic reference to a potential new problem intrigued congressional investigators...