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Speaking of dissent, we didn't care much for the "time to close ranks" arguments so popular with Administration officials--not to mention campus pro-war activists. Admittedly, anti-war demonstrations can lower troop morale. They can also bring unnecessary wars to a halt. The time for debate is never over. Never...
Entertaining the troops has been a tradition among show-business folks ever since the USO first took performers overseas to perform for G.I.s during World War II. But the eagerness to participate has rarely been greater or more broad-based than it has been since Operation Desert Storm began. Energized by lingering guilt about the way Vietnam soldiers were treated, celebrities of all political stripes have been rushing to show support for allied forces in the gulf. Nearly 100 actors, singers and athletes, ranging from Meryl Streep to Mike Tyson, got together to record Voices That Care, a pro-troop...
...announce the withdrawal of troops if I am not informed how the question of the removal of the U.S. forces from Saudi Arabia will be resolved?" Saddam replied. "Will the U.N. sanctions against Iraq be lifted, or will they remain in force? How will my country's interest concerning an outlet to the sea be ensured? Will there be some form of linkage between the Iraqi troop pullout from Kuwait and a solution to the Palestinian problem...
Without knowing the answers to these questions, Saddam said, he could do nothing. "This will be suicidal for me," Saddam stressed. "And it is not only a question that is of concern to me. If, without receiving answers to these questions, I announce a troop withdrawal from Kuwait, it will be Iraq that commits suicide. That is precisely why I am expecting these contacts will continue...
...Everyone was afraid of troop casualties," says Kurt M. Campbell, associate professor of public policy at the Kennedy School. "It is now clear that there were very few casualties." Campbell recently returned to Harvard after a two year stint as special assistant to the National Security Council...