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CONTENTS Volume CXVIII, Number 9 Correspondence 274 Editorials 275 The sources of desire: Paul Baumann 277 Dropping in on the Shakers: Paul Elie 279 A syllabus for progress:...
...Their tragic condition is also a reminder of the war before the war, of the chronic hostilities between Saddam Hussein, supported by the Baathist party, and the Iraqi people, especially the Kurds and the Shiites...
...The international effort to save the Kurds is a sobering reminder, if one is needed, that no party will walk away as easily or as quickly as it had planned...
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...We could hardly do less, and a great deal more will be required...
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...Return to the Kurds and the Shiites...
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...The Gulf War stopped when and where it should have...
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...How is it that a country in shambles, on the brink of epidemic and famine, without food, fuel, and potable water--in "near-apocalyptic" conditions according to UN officials visiting Baghdad in mid-March-----could still unleash an army with the resources and audacity to war against its own citizens...
...As the Kurdish and Shiite uprisings unfolded, there was an obvious question...
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...The chronic hostilities within Iraq will not completely cease with his dispatch, but it is the key to Iraq's rehabilitating and rebuilding itself...
...But who could have agreed to it...
...If he cannot be removed by the Iraqi army and sent into exile, then trial before an intemational tribunal ought to be pursued as several European nations have now proposed...
...The Kurds' near-constant state of rebellion against Baghdad has been regularly and brutally suppressed...
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...Should the coalition have pursued the Iraqi army to Baghdad and deposed Saddam Hussein...
...They are right...
...The postwar war he Kurds on the Turkish border, in Iran, and within Iraq are the most visible sign of the war after the war...
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...Above all the Kurds must be returned safely to their towns and cities with international guarantees for their future security...
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...It is this memory that feeds their reluctance to return home...
...The memory of the 1988 uprising, put to an end with chemical weapons, sent hundreds of thousands of civilians fleeing in March, some under fire, many in panic at the assault of the Iraqi army...
...For the sake of the Kurds and the Shiites, it is tempting to see this as the better course...
...Can this happen if Saddam Hussein remains in power...
...His continuation in power not only threatens their security, but postpones the end of the embargo and a new start for all Iraqis...
...They have said that this means that Saddam Hussein must go...
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...As Clausewitz might have said, had he known the Middle East--the war continues by other means...
...The prospect of more fleeing Iraqi soldiers being bombed and burned would have been intolerable...
...If Hussein can pursue total control under these conditions, what can possibly stop him when conditions are alleviated...
...George Orwell: Katharine Byrne 288 Broken pieces: Deborah Smith Douglas 291 Poetry: Marilee Richards 292 Stage: Gerald Weales 293 Screen: Paul Baumann 294 Media: Frank McConnell 296 BOOKS The Age of Diminished Expectations: John Feffer 297 Iron John: James Neafsey 299 Modem Catholicism: Lawrence S. Cunningham 300 Abortion: Robert G. Hoyt 300 STAFF Editor: Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Managing Editor: Patrick Jordan Associate Editor: Paul Baumann Production Editor: Jacqueline Dowdell Senior Writer: Robert G. Hoyt Movies: Richard Alleva Stage: Gerald Weales Poetry: Rosemary Deen Columnists: John Garvey, J. Bryan Hehir, Abigail McCarthy, David R. Carlin, Jr...
...it is Iraq's chronic internal wars that need to be brought to an end...
...The energy and skill brought to the war over Kuwait seem to have dissipated all round--with George Bush as with the UN...
...And extending the war's goals would have caused a political storm in the UN, in Europe, and possibly the U.S...
...280 From Leo XIII to John Paul II: J. Bryan Hehir 281 A wealth of notions: Mel Piehl 283 Mrs...
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...CONTENTS Volume CXVIII, Number 9 Correspondence 274 Editorials 275 The sources of desire: Paul Baumann 277 Dropping in on the Shakers: Paul Elie 279 A syllabus for progress: David R. Carlin, Jr...
...troops pull back in southern Iraq, others U.S., British, and French--are moving into the north to create safe havens for the Kurds...
Vol. 118 • May 1991 • No. 9
