Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...National Security Adviser Sandy Berger had been rushing around, thinking detail. Checking off extra bombing options. Tweaking instructions to the U.N. envoys. Fine-tuning the perfect strike against the Iraqi leader who has bedeviled the U.S. for eight long years...
...green light to rebuild his terror arsenal. "We know he'll threaten his neighbors again with reconstituted weapons of mass destruction," said Berger, and the U.S. would have ceded its power to stop him. R.I.P. to American global credibility. The second question is trickier: if the biggest air strike against Iraq since the end of the Gulf War doesn't bludgeon Saddam into resuming inspections, all formal restraints on his weapon building are still gone, and the U.S. is committed to an endless repetition of attacks to keep Iraq in check: arms control by bombing. Very expensive, politically formidable...
Those clarifications came overnight Saturday. While Pentagon planners revved up military forces for a possible Sunday strike, the White House engaged in a diplomatic marathon, trying to finalize an Iraqi commitment to unlimited and unfettered inspections. Early in the morning, in a final letter to the U.N., Baghdad abandoned the last of its conditions, and Clinton warily told the military to stand down. In a Sunday morning press conference, the President (who confessed he hadn't had much sleep) called the result a win: "Our willingness to strike produced the outcome we preferred." But he also made it clear that...
...also a question of pragmatism. Saddam's letter, late as it was, nearly instantly vaporized the international political consensus that would have supported a strike. Though the U.S. had insisted it would act alone if necessary, Saddam's retreat forced the White House to regroup with its allies. The tense see-sawing of the day produced a profound sense of deja vu. "Haven't we been here before?" sighed a Navy officer. "How many times are we going to let him do this...
...council's current predicament can largely be blamed on the administration of Robert M. Hyman '98 and his successor Lamelle D. Rawlins '99. Serving consecutively as the first popularly elected heads of the body, Hyman and Rawlins failed to strike an appropriate chord for student leaders. Undoubtedly, they are both lovely people, but their public style was arrogant and alienating...