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...Stanley Hoffmann, Mellon professor of social sciences, said that Americans cannot evade the moral issues surrounding the war. "The one decision which we all have to make is moral stand about this war," he said...
...Hoffmann maintained that if the anti-Iraq coalition failed to defeat Saddam Hussein cleanly and quickly, the U.S. could retreat into isolationism and destroy the possibility of collective security to halt future Saddamism. "Only a miraculously successful war--a swift victory through a limited resort to force--would dispel these dangers," Hoffmann wrote...
Despite the favorable course of war thus far, the well-entrenched Iraqi troops will not leave Kuwait without a bloody ground war. As Hoffmann put it, a large American body count "almost ensures that the U.S. will not again provide the leadership--not to be confused with preponderance--required to make [collective security] work...
BECAUSE OF economic realities, the days when the U.S. can act unilaterally are over. In fact, as Hoffmann put it, "no single nation will be capable of playing world policeman" in the '90s. Still, there must be a united force (most logically, of course, the U.N.) which can effectively stop future Saddams. And this force must be prepared to negotiate workable solutions for cases less clear-cut than Iraq's invasion. Most important, this force must be prepared to enforce those solutions...
Stanley H. Hoffmann, Dillon professor of the civilization of France, for example, has written editorials on the topic for publications like the The New York Review of Books and The Boston Globe. While he is no Middle East expert, he says he has chosen to write because it involves American foreign policy--a topic he teaches...