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...blockade might eventually persuade Saddam to withdraw. In fact, Washington's bellicose talk last week, however discordant, was basically intended to enhance the blockade's impact. "In terms of shaping Saddam's calculus," says a State Department official, "what you're looking for is not economic deprivation that causes riots in the streets but rather a sense that the sanctions are gradually having effect, that they're not going to be loosened, that the international consensus in favor of them is strong. Then, projecting them out into the future, Saddam sees a point where they are going to affect...
Today advertisers' influence may be less overt, but the content of TV shows remains heavily monitored. Remember the gay couple on Thirty-something who disappeared mysteriously after a few episodes? The advertisers sponsoring the show are suspected of threatening to withdraw their support...
...Saddam just withdraw from Kuwait, allow the restoration of the former government and then negotiate a solution to his specific border disputes...
...week's end, though, the prevailing sounds were decidedly hawkish. Whatever the conciliatory talk elsewhere, Washington was having none of it, at least in public. George Bush blasted suggestions that a trade could be made to induce Saddam Hussein to withdraw. "I am more determined than ever to see that this invading dictator gets out of Kuwait with no compromise of any kind whatsoever," he said. To ensure that Saddam perceives the military alliance ranged against him as "credible," and to achieve an offensive capability beyond the "defend and deter" mission described as Washington's objective to date, Defense Secretary...
There is still the possibility that Saddam will get smart, leave Kuwait and go about increasing his powers of intimidation by completing his nuclear weapons program. If he doesn't see a need to withdraw to the status quo ante -- and there is no sign yet that he "gets it," to borrow the phrase in vogue in the White House -- it appears that much of the world is headed toward war against the man George Bush once again last week called "Hitler revisited...