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...battle grinds on in the gulf, thoughts of a quick solution irresistibly spring to mind. Why not assassinate Saddam? Or threaten to nuke Baghdad? Or carpet bomb the Iraqis to kingdom come? The U.S., in fact, does have potent weapons that have not yet been unsheathed. "We have a toolbox that's full of lots of tools, and I brought them all to the party," General Colin Powell said last week. Field commander H. Norman Schwarzkopf bragged, "We could end the war in two days, but we don't want to destroy Iraq...
...strong stand against injustice in the Soviet Union would be ideologically consistent. It would bolster Bush's call for a New World Order grounded in morality, sovereignty and respect for international law. But it would threaten the post-Cold War detente Bush deems necessary for post-Gulf War cooperation. He'd rather deal with a satisfied Soviet Empire than an angry, revisionist Russia--not to mention a slew of ethnically divided, nationalistic republics...
...time primed to kick off next fall, the fund drive was pushed back a year, primarily due to the ongoing search for a new president. Now, worsening economic conditions throughout the nation threaten to further delay the fund drive...
Something terrible was about to happen--something terrible that could very well threaten my life. And there wasn't a damn thing I could do about...
...counterbalance to Iran." At the same time, the U.S. and its allies are determined to wipe out Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and seriously impair its conventional war machine. Reconciling those two aims requires a delicate balancing act. "You want an Iraq weak enough that it can't threaten the weakest of its neighbors, yet strong enough to deter the strongest of its neighbors," says Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee...