Word: clemenceau
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Dates: during 1991-1991
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Which is not to say the gulf war wasn't worth it. A crucial principle was defended: aggression will be checked -- at least when the victim sits atop the commodity clemenceau said was "as necessary as blood." But on most other fronts the euphoria of the allied victory has given way to the region's traditional pessimism. Centuries-old attitudes have not changed, new alliances have not jelled, and the historic suspicion of Western influence has receded only slightly. Even a joint defense force to deter future invasions has proved impossible to fashion; such is the distrust among the gulf...
...Woodrow Wilson had a dominant position in world affairs after World War I," notes former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. "But there were other players on that stage." The aging tiger Georges Clemenceau, France's Prime Minister, still prowled the premises, as did Britain's Prime Minister David Lloyd George, another heavyweight. "No nation in any historical period has had the spectacular success of the U.S. these past two years," adds Kissinger, who was a professor of history before he became a shaper of policy and then a wealthy consultant on international relations...