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...smart bombs and cruise missiles began to rain down on Baghdad, National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft posed a question: "Can the U.S. use force -- even go to war -- for carefully defined national interests, or do we have to have a moral crusade or a galvanizing event like Pearl Harbor?" Put another way, Scowcroft was asking whether a nation traumatized by its defeat in Vietnam had grown up enough to accept its leadership responsibilities in the murkier world that emerged with the end of the cold...
...policeman. "The changing nature of power will take more patience than what we've seen before," says Joseph Nye at Harvard. "True, America is No. 1, but No. 1 isn't what it used to be." For all the exhortations and promise of a new world order, most people harbor a healthy cynicism about the chance of bringing lasting peace to an ancient war zone...
...that is fine, and undoubtedly true, but there's another reason for Baker's frenetic shuttling -- the securing of George Bush's re-election in 1992. Many American Jews harbor an inchoate but visceral belief that while Ronald Reagan and George Shultz were seen as instinctive friends of Israel, Bush and Baker are at best neutral toward the Jewish state. "We've reinforced that perception with a series of statements viewed as unfairly squeezing Israel," concedes a State Department official, "but if we can generate even a little progress -- or just the appearance of progress -- the hostility should fade...
...while the President seemed to be returning to normal, the rest of the country continued to suffer from the shakes. New polls showed that most Americans, including a majority of Republicans, harbor deep doubts about Quayle. This public sentiment is echoed, with refinements, by senior White House officials and other top Republicans, most of whom concede privately that they are highly uncomfortable with the prospect of Quayle's replacing Bush. Their consensus is that Quayle, while harder working and more capable than his public image suggests, will never develop the broad grasp of issues or the commanding presence to serve...
...become a military despot, if not an absolute monarch. Andrew Jackson, the hero of New Orleans, rode into the White House with two bullets in his body and a white scar across his face. When South Carolina tried to annul new federal tariffs, Jackson sent soldiers to Charleston harbor and muttered about marching south with 50,000 men. William Henry Harrison was the hero of Tippecanoe; Ulysses Grant served under Zachary Taylor in the Mexican War, before going on to glory at Vicksburg and Appomattox; and Rough Rider Teddy Roosevelt, mustache bristling, charged up San Juan Hill and into American...