Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some panelists suggested that the U.S. should withdraw its forces from the Gulf theater...
Recent signals from the State Department are not helping. After months of tough rhetoric calling for the removal of Saddam Hussein, Secretary of State James Baker said last week that the president would be willing to half hostilities if Saddam made "an unequivocal commitment to withdraw from Kuwait." Bush should insist that Saddam actually pull out of Kuwait completely before stopping the war effort. The U.S. should stick to the agreed-upon goals around which the coalition was formed...
...Citizens with bank accounts will be permitted to withdraw no more than 500 rubles each month...
...legislative branch had no reasonable alternative but to go along. What was even more disturbing, however, was Bush's open admission that he would have committed American troops to fight even if Congress had explicitly forbidden him to do so. If the war goes badly and Congress votes to withdraw U.S. forces, Bush may provoke a Constitutional crisis by ignoring the legislative branch...
Much will depend on how Washington behaves in the aftermath of war. A quick withdrawal of American forces would give the lie to a loony, but widespread, Middle East conspiracy theory: that the U.S. provoked the gulf crisis -- actually encouraged Saddam to invade Kuwait -- in order to colonize the region. The degree to which Washington pressures Israel to withdraw from the occupied territories and, ultimately, give the Palestinians a homeland will also determine the level of American credibility in the region...