Three months after United States Marines liberated Kuwait City, the victors of Operation Desert Storm are still being honored across the country.
For almost four months, the United States has been sleepwalking toward war. Though there are the trappings of a debate — hearings in Congress, argument and speculation on the editorial pages, discussion on the public-affairs programs — thus far they have seemed insubstantial when set against the reality of President Bush’s military buildup
Americans tend to examine distant regimes, and the commitments our government has made to them, only during times of crisis.
When in 1947 the UN handed down the Solomonic judgment that to resolve the “Palestine problem” the Holy Land would be divided into two nations bound together in “economic union,” the laughter on Sinai must have been loud indeed.