Word: saudi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...claims that the anti-war movement does not support the troops. We do. If George Bush supported the troops the way we do, those 12 Marines that died Thursday would be safe and warm. George Bush's support means building the largest morgue in history on the sands of Saudi Arabia in anticipation of American deaths. Our support means bringing them home alive...
...patriotism of the antiwar protesters. Whatever one's personal views on the wisdom of the war, there is a collective sense of respect and obligation toward the men and women in uniform. Yes, the volunteer army means that the sacrifice of having a son, a relative, a friend in Saudi Arabia is shared unevenly. My own burden is scant. But class and caste also shielded people like me from the draft in the 1960s; for much of the Vietnam War, such social inequities were the dirty little secret of the upper middle class. This time, at least, the topic...
...Fighting raged again yesterday in the beach town-turned-battleground of Khafji, which has changed hands twice in as many days. A Saudi general called Iraq's attack on the town a "suicide mission...
...Allied planes attacked a 10-mile-long Iraqi armored column headed into Saudi Arabia. A major assault by Iraqi ground troops is expected soon...
...hard, no doubt, to imagine Peter Jennings--after a military briefing from General Schwarzkopf in Saudi Arabia and a Pentagon briefing by Secretary Cheney in Washington--switching to a "spiritual" briefing, not by Billy Graham but by some American poet or writer (aside from Tom Clancy) in Cambridge or New York or Omaha or San Francisco. It is hard not to imagine it because whereas, as the late poet Robert Lowell said (not so long ago, when poets were at least invited to the White House), "Every serious artist knows that he cannot enjoy public celebration without making subtle public...