Word: draft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...retard backsliding, Fawzi al-Sultan's planners in Washington are effectively rigging the assumptions. When the group's health expert, or the men from public works, for example, draft their recovery plans, the first question is always, How many people are we supposed to plan for? "When the working hypothesis is 1.3 million, tops," says al-Sultan, "the answers come out in a certain way. Lock those premises in, and the shape of the society will change. Demography is everything...
...oppose this war on moral grounds, come out and say so now. January 15--and certainly February 15--will be too late. If you come out against war only after a war or a draft starts, you will merely be a hypocrite and an opportunist, as well as a coward...
SOUND unrealistic? Hardly. The example of Vietnam War protests is similar. At Harvard and elsewhere across the nation, anti-war protests became really serious only when students became threatened with induction into the military. They virtually disappeared when the draft ended in 1973--well before the hostilities in Southeast Asia ended...
...merits or follies of Bush's gulf policy as long as we do not have to go to war. Bush undoubtedly realizes that putting middle-class lives on the line is the surest way to provoke a political backlash against his Gulf policy; that's why, realistically, the draft is unlikely...
Though it is far from certain that Saddam would return Kuwait in exchange for this prize, the trophy is already within his grasp. Last week attempts to draft a U.N. resolution endorsing a Middle East parley in terms acceptable to the U.S. broke down. But despite its posture at the U.N., and contrary to its publicly stated position, Washington, under pressure from its European and Arab allies, has privately acquiesced to such talks after the gulf crisis is resolved...