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...flagged Kuwaiti tankers through the waterway. The cruisers and aircraft carriers Washington has sent were designed for a major war with the Soviets not for guerrilla encounters with Revolutionary Guards in speedboats. The billion-dollar, 500-yard-long ships are fat targets in the narrow Gulf, where WWI-vintage mines have taken a disturbing toll...
...Travesties is not a travesty of drama, but its not high comedy either. Bring your notebook on WWI culture and a good portion of patience, and you'll get a good helping of learned wit in return. But if you want easy-to-appreciate comedy, or at least something with a faster pace, you'd better check elsewhere this weekend...
...toward détente that included a U.S. pushed 1974 Biological Weapons Convention outlawing bacteriological means of war which was signed by 111 nations chemical weaponry appears to be on the rise. Use of the outlawed substances has recently been proven in more instances than at any time since WWI--"yellow rain" in Laos, Cambodia, and Afghanistan as a result of Soviet-backed or direct Soviet aggression, and by Iraq against Iran. Reports have ranged from "ordinary" use of mustard gas by Iraq to the widespread, unexplained presence of artificial disease-causing toxins in Southeast Asia...
...disappearing somewhere in the interior of Brazil." In fact, the professional military never wanted it, but as technology improved through the 60s, civilian leaders saw its value. Still today it would seem that nuclear doctrine has lagged behind the ramifications of the cruise missile just as our armies in WWI and II at find lagged in recognizing the importances of fighter plane and armored tank technologies...
...demands coincide with their best interests. However, it is possible that through jingoism, well orchestrated media campaigns, a Russian invasion of Poland, etc., people might consider the military buildup worth the sacrifices it entails. The United States has only been in one broadly unpopular war; the American people supported WWI, WWII, Korea, etc. The American people are not consolidated pacifists, and I do believe that there are situations where the majority of Americans would favor a military buildup...