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...about the realities of this war. The partial news blackout, stage-managed by the U.S. military, seems a never-again overreaction to Vietnam. The longer the nation is safeguarded from the full truth, the more jarring will be the recoil when the inevitable bad news hits. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney warned, "A military operation of this intensity and complexity cannot be scored every evening like a college track meet or a basketball game." What other choice do we have but to tot up the bombing sorties, mourn the downed flyers and pray for the best...
...biological-weapons plants (including one factory in Baghdad that the Iraqis said manufactured baby formula but that the White House insisted was devoted to preparations for germ warfare), command-and-control centers and, in particular, the Iraqi air force. At a midweek briefing, Powell and Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney counted a bit more than 40 Iraqi planes shot down or destroyed on the ground. That compares with 22 allied planes, half of them American, lost in combat, nearly all to ground fire -- a startlingly low figure given the number of sorties. As many as 750 Iraqi planes may have...
...that the shield has become a storm, Schwarzkopf is running the show as commander of the allied forces. Abraham Lincoln and Lyndon Johnson, fancying themselves cunning battlefield tacticians, liked to direct their generals hither and thither. George Bush, Dick Cheney and Colin Powell know better. Desert Storm, says Cheney, "is basically Norm's plan. It's fundamentally Norm's to execute...
...hard, no doubt, to imagine Peter Jennings--after a military briefing from General Schwarzkopf in Saudi Arabia and a Pentagon briefing by Secretary Cheney in Washington--switching to a "spiritual" briefing, not by Billy Graham but by some American poet or writer (aside from Tom Clancy) in Cambridge or New York or Omaha or San Francisco. It is hard not to imagine it because whereas, as the late poet Robert Lowell said (not so long ago, when poets were at least invited to the White House), "Every serious artist knows that he cannot enjoy public celebration without making subtle public...
...Jordan and a fueling of nationalist and Islamic extremism that would threaten Western interests and perhaps even bring down moderate Arab regimes. The array of possibilities is bewildering even to those who are leading the war effort. "Some sort of planning needs to be done," conceded Defense Secretary Dick Cheney while appearing before the House Armed Services Committee last December. "Everybody's been so busy dealing with the crisis of the moment that there really hasn't been much effort put into longer range focus...