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...instead to negotiate. And Saddam could find that very appealing. "I don't think the Iraqis are looking for it now," says a U.S. official. "But what they might be after, as pressure begins to take effect, is a solution that preserves as many gains as possible from their conquest of Kuwait." Some experts, like Richard Murphy, a senior fellow at the New York Council on Foreign Relations, think that if such a point is reached, both sides will acquiesce. "Money will be paid to an aggressor, or land," he says, in a deal arranged by Saddam's Arab neighbors...
According to a perverse law of international politics, hard-liners on opposing sides tend to reinforce each other's stubbornness and influence, especially in times of tension. Consider the interaction between Baghdad and Jerusalem. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's Likud government is hoping that Iraq's conquest of Kuwait will make it easier for Israel to retain possession of the West Bank and Gaza Strip...
...Saddam is not easily intimidated. He is convinced that no nation has the nerve to take him on. His conquest might have been deterred, but undoing it now will be nigh impossible. Baghdad radio warned that Iraq would "make Kuwait a graveyard for those who launch any aggression." The feckless international response to his muscle flexing during the past decade has nourished his belief that he has little to fear if he misbehaves. A loner, he has rarely if ever been told no -- probably because the few who tried to do so tended to wind up dead...
...traditional themes of rock 'n roll, if more explicit--but several groups write lyrics that are among the most thoughtful and compelling in music. Iron Maiden, for instance, have put out songs on such assorted topics as the Crimean War, Coleridge's poetry and the white man's brutal conquest of the American Indian. Maiden write about literature, history and science fiction, but never, ever, about the shopworn topics that saturate contemporary rock music...
...Kerrey, like other Democratic mentionables, has not formed a political- action committee to raise funds, set up an exploratory committee, hired a pollster, secretly gathered a brain trust or assembled any of the normal paraphernalia of political conquest. At a similar point in previous election cycles, John Kennedy had barnstormed the U.S.; George McGovern, Gary Hart and Walter Mondale had functioning organizations; and Jimmy Carter and Richard Gephardt had wandered purposefully through Iowa's byways...