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Philosophical questions boil down to the conflict between the welfare state and the free market. He may be right--man would be more civilized and peaceful if everything were equitable and planned. But Cantor harps too long on the forces which suppress man's progress...
...ordered a poison-gas attack on restive Kurds in 1988, killing 5,000 and earning him the nickname "the butcher of Kurdistan." Last September, Majid, who like Saddam has a limited education and little sophistication about the outside world, was made governor of occupied Kuwait so that he would suppress the resistance. He was responsible for the summary execution of its members and the abduction of an estimated 2,000 Kuwaitis to Iraq...
BUSH'S COMMITMENT to "resist aggression" via U.N. resolutions smacks of Kennan's warning against "the belief that it should be possible to suppress the chaotic and dangerous aspirations of governments in the international field by the acceptance of some system of legal rules and restraints...
...though the prevailing opinion is that support will fall if casualties soar, the calculation may be more complicated. To begin with, the war in the gulf is not a unilateral guerrilla war to suppress a national liberation movement; it is a struggle to evict an invading army from a neighboring country it is occupying in defiance of the U.N. A TIME/CNN poll conducted last week by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman found that 79% expected U.S. casualties in a land war to be in the thousands or tens of thousands. Despite such catastrophic losses, 58% said they believe the war would...
...weeks ago, Gorbachev struck down both legislative acts and gave the Georgians three days to withdraw their "armed formations" from South Ossetia. Gamsakhurdia rejected the ultimatum. "We understand," he told Moscow, "that you have the power at your disposal to try to suppress the national independence movement in Georgia. But what would be the price of that victory? And would it be a victory?" A visiting Soviet parliamentary commission hinted last week that Moscow might be willing to allow Georgian police to remain in the region but wanted guarantees of its "cultural autonomy...