Word: strike
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sounds awfully like 1992 all over again. But with support for a military strike almost undetectable either at home or abroad, those U.N. handcuffs shouldn't chafe President Clinton overmuch. And when those U.S. warships in the Gulf recede and Saddam gets up to his old tricks, the council may wish it had left Clinton something to bluff with...
...Security Council resolutions notwithstanding, the cost of taking military action would still outweigh any benefit for Washington. ?There was very little international support for a military strike,? says Dowell. ?Iraq was not an immediate threat and it was difficult to see why we would be bombing people because of an abstract future threat...
...America's allies think along the same lines. France wants to do business in Iraq's oil fields, but French officials insist they are not pro-Saddam. They'd like to see the last of him too. But they have no faith in the methods Washington is proposing. Air strikes of the size now gathering steam in the gulf, the French say, are a no-win policy that can only benefit Saddam. The bombs will miss his weapons, kill Iraqi civilians and rally support for Saddam at home and in the Arab world. The French government assumes that after...
...prototypical mayor-as-character from the past was Fiorello La Guardia, who was a symbol of the warmth and ebullience associated with New York Italians. Mayor Giuliani has said that he models himself on La Guardia. This must strike many New Yorkers as the equivalent of Kenneth Starr's saying that early in his life he decided to adopt the style and wit of John F. Kennedy: something got lost in the translation. (Those who believe in a just and vengeful God, as Starr apparently does, must have felt the heavens rumble when, around the time the Office...
Giuliani, who may be the only Italian in the Greater New York area with no trace of personal charm, cannot be imagined in La Guardia's most memorable mayor-as-character role--reading the funnies to the city's children during a newspaper strike. We can picture him instead lecturing children about wasting their time on funnies or maybe even arresting them for reading the funnies. We can picture him saying those who disagree with him on the funnies issue are irredeemably corrupt human beings...