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...seem unlikely, but according to a recent National Geographic Society survey of nine countries, Americans ranked at the very bottom in their knowledge of geography. When asked to identify 16 spots on the map, including the United States, the Soviet Union, the Pacific Ocean and the Persian Gulf, American adults averaged 8.6 correct answers. Swedes ranked the highest, with 11.6 points...
Kuwait made its options clear when, in the wake of the Senate vote, it promptly agreed to buy 245 armored personnel carriers from the Soviet Union. A host of other nations, including France, China, Brazil and Argentina, are eagerly competing to meet the oil-rich Persian Gulf Arabs' desire to shore up defenses against their fundamentalist neighbor Iran...
...past several years, Iran has been busy making itself the world's odd man out: ignoring United Nations efforts to end its war with Iraq, boycotting the U.N. Security Council because of its alleged anti-Tehran bias, attacking neutral shipping in the Persian Gulf. Last week it paid the price for its self-imposed isolation. Twice it sought an international condemnation of the U.S. on an issue on which Washington would otherwise have been vulnerable, the July 3 shootdown of Iran Air Flight 655 over the gulf. But twice it came away with nothing...
...trigger-happy gunslingers; that black-hat role was played by the Soviet Union in 1983 when it brazenly shot down a Korean airliner. Terrorists are supposed to be the ones who cause death in the air -- not the nation upholding the civilized rights of free passage in the Persian Gulf...
...Pentagon rushed a six-member oversight team to the Persian Gulf to review the Vincennes' procedures and performance. The rationale for the inquiry is clear: If the Vincennes correctly adhered to the rules of engagement, how could America possibly be blamed for the tragedy? But such bureaucratic reasoning and reflexive faith in systematic procedures fails to countenance that sometimes -- in a disorderly world -- grand intentions produce grotesque results...