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...consolation for environmentalists is that this may be the first war in which the ecological consequences of battle have been a focus of world attention even as the fighting takes place. Yet that very awareness multiplies the sense of horror and demoralization caused by Saddam's callous acts of environmental terrorism. In his quixotic madness, the Iraqi strongman seems intent on waging what he calls "the mother of all battles" against the mother of us all -- the earth itself...
...their sorrow and horror at the nightly accounts of devastation, many Arab Americans are searching for any sign of hope. Few see much prospect for stability or democracy taking root in the Middle East anytime soon. But at the very least, they hope that the war will raise consciousness. "For the first time Americans are having to take a look at what is going on in the Middle East," says Murad, "and I hope a lot of myths will be dispelled." As the battle goes on, however, it is sure to seem like a high price to pay for enlightenment...
...that proposition seems less clear-cut than it did even a few weeks ago. The horror in Vilnius is a reminder that there is still a lot of trouble, and terror, left in that giant country, not to mention almost 30,000 nuclear weapons. And if Gorbachev's relatively benign foreign policy collapses because of the vicious circle of internal revolt and repression, the West may find itself waging a Cold War II in the coming years. At a minimum, the Soviet Union may be less cooperative in the Security Council the next time Uncle Sam tries to round...
That is, help him accept that death without the peace of oblivion is China's lot. The manifestations of that horror are myriad, and Zhang, whose 1985 novel Half of Man Is Woman shocked the People's Republic with its explicit -- by Chinese standards -- discussion of sex, details them with bitter black humor. Lined up for execution, the main character sees his condemned colleagues fall dead in a hail of bullets. Only he and a young girl remain alive, spared by blanks and cynical commissars. Nearly dead from starvation, he is hauled into a makeshift morgue and buried...
...unreal it all feels. Never before have Americans waited for a war scheduled to begin on or close to a certain date, knowing too that they will watch its horror during prime time. How discouraging as well, after the freedom that swept Eastern Europe following 40 years of communist dictatorship. Because of that transformation, the possibility of massive war was supposedly lifted: the nukes were being destroyed. We were not totally lulled. We knew that madmen still held sway, messianic tyrants riveted by the Nietzschean principle that power is a good in itself. We felt bad for those subjected...