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...some in the Administration acknowledged discomfort. One official conceded, "It seems to me just like Hungary in 1956. Having called on people to overthrow their repressive leadership, we just sit back and watch them get slaughtered." Other commentators came up with a different analogy: the Red Army halting outside Warsaw in 1944 and doing nothing to stop a Nazi massacre of the Jewish ghetto residents who had risen in revolt...
Wojciech Jaruzelski: Prime Minister of Poland, 1985. A laudatory portrait of the father of martial law, who so impressed Maxwell during a 1985 meeting in Warsaw that the publisher declared in a radio interview that the Solidarity problem was "solved...
Most of Moscow's brass, however, is not absorbing that lesson and is simply demanding more money. That is in part a knee-jerk reaction, conditioned by a series of shocks to the military system, like the humiliation in Afghanistan, the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, and two years of major cuts in the defense budget...
...with it; Max has been rendered impotent by his troubles. In Warsaw, particularly on Krochmalna Street, he quickly encounters a number of women as eager to use him as he is them, with generally unhappy results. There is, as Singer warns, little of God's wisdom and mercy in this book, but the display of human perversity and sheer cussedness is enthralling...
...advisers at the Pentagon and at coalition headquarters in Riyadh are "good to go" for a ground war, in part because it gives them a chance to clobber the ghosts of Vietnam. Meanwhile, Gorbachev's generals are licking their wounds from Afghanistan, bringing home the pieces of the Warsaw Pact and supervising commando raids against civilians in restive republics. That makes them all the more dyspeptic about their principal rival's pummeling a longtime Soviet client whose northern border is only about 400 miles from the U.S.S.R. Moreover, Operation Desert Storm is decimating a military establishment made up largely...