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...maintained the U.S. presence in Vietnam, Bush's goals enjoy the support of the United Nations, a multinational force, Congress and a vast majority of Americans. Moreover, Saddam's blatant disregard for civilians -- his initial holding of unwilling Western "guests," the torture and killing of unarmed Kuwaitis, his ongoing Scud attacks against civilian targets in Israel -- has ensured that he will not be lionized as Ho Chi Minh was during the Vietnam War. If anything, his brutality has strengthened allied public and official support for his elimination...
Searching for mobile Scud launchers last week did divert allied warplanes from bombing targets of greater military importance. That and heavy clouds over Iraq and Kuwait early in the week briefly slowed the tempo of the air assault. Many allied planes carry infrared devices and guidance systems that enable them to hit targets they cannot see. But assessment of bomb damage can only be done visually, which is impossible through clouds. That in turn makes it difficult to decide which planes should be sent to hit targets a second time and which can pound new ones...
...their conflicting interests. He is especially careful in his dealings with the Saudis. Only last week King Fahd, worried about an attack on Riyadh, wanted reassurance from the top. Schwarzkopf went to the palace and advised Fahd that his main concern was the possibility that Saddam could fire Scud missiles with chemical warheads at the capital. That was not much in the way of reassurance, but at least the King got straight talk...
...sophisticated phased-array radar consisting of more than 5,000 radar antenna elements that can detect and track 100 targets at a time and follow any given one far more rapidly than the rotating cone of conventional radar. But the system had never been tested against a Scud...
...first week of the war, the Patriot performed better than had been expected, hitting 95% of its targets as opposed to the 60% experts had predicted. But the system, which was designed as an antiaircraft weapon and later modified to shoot down missiles, is not infallible. Many of the Scuds that got through last week were actually struck by Patriots but not destroyed. Investigators say part of the problem seems to be that Scuds tend to break up as they re-enter the atmosphere. In at least one case, a Patriot struck the tail end of a disintegrating Scud, leaving...