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Support the Troops: Starting Friday, the Crimson's helmets will bear American flags in support of the U.S. troops in the Persian Gulf...
These were in turn overthrown by World War II, which, in America in particular, produced a hunger for normalcy in domestic life and a self- confident sense of mission (captured by J.F.K.'s "We shall bear any burden" Inaugural Address) in international life. The long twilight struggle of the cold war could have been sustained only by a people that had lived through World...
Would it work? Eventually, almost certainly, given the firepower that U.S. and allied forces can bring to bear on the ground as well as from the air. But at what cost? Nobody can tell. The first stage of the air war was remarkable for its light allied casualties (nobody has any idea what Iraqi casualties are to date). Just maybe, the ground war might be a surprise for the same reason. Or perhaps for exactly the opposite reason. War remains, as ever, an exercise in the unpredictable...
...deliver weapons of mass destruction. It is unlikely that we could have attained this goal through purely peaceful means. However, both the United States and Iraq know that the costs of military involvement will rise dramatically when ground forces are committed to combat. The U.S. assumes that it must bear these costs in order to achieve other objectives...
...conditions deteriorate by the day, Roubayee, the hospital's chief resident, can hardly bear to contemplate what will happen next. Once the U.N. deadline for Iraq's withdrawal from Kuwait expires this week, he fears that American and allied planes will bomb Baghdad and that his hospital will be overwhelmed with the wounded. "It will be a disaster," says Roubayee, who once served as a medic in an Iraqi army tank unit. "Doctors are very anxious. You have patients dying in front of you, and there is nothing you can do about it. We hope there will...