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...picked out a Scud which we'll gladly deliver...
...being placed on Syrian leader Hafez el-Assad, and why Bush wants the Golan to be in Assad's hands is a mystery. Is Assad going to plant Dutch tulips on the mountain's rolling slopes or would it be more along the lines of the 24 North Korean scud missiles Syria purchased in the wake of last year's Gulf...
...will have no effect on most of the conflicts that are lumped together as the Middle East problem. Lebanese Christians and Muslims will continue to kill each other. Religious fundamentalism will roll merrily along. Unrest, if not war, will mark the Maghreb. Iraq will still threaten any country within Scud range. Tens of millions of people from Damascus to Cairo to Tunis and beyond will be poor, illiterate and politically suppressed...
...Israelis did their bit toward increasing tensions by sending four F- 16 fighter planes over Iraq to scout out Scud missile sites, crossing through the airspace of Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Jordan in the process. Jerusalem's explanation was that it was not satisfied with U.S. intelligence on Iraq's remaining military capabilities and wanted to see for itself what it might be up against if the festering disagreements over Iraq's disarmament came to blows. In fact, Shamir's government seemed to be sending a firm message to its own people as much...
Other proposed missile technology defenses would be far too costly to install in every city of every state--and there's no guarantee that missile technology will work. The example of the Patriot missile merely diverting a Scud into a U.S. Army base underlines the irrationality of SDI. Most nuclear missiles discharge their war-heads (and decoys) long before entering the range of ground-based missiles, making defense systems impotent in a low-altitude nuclear confrontations...