European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 5, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the sars and stripes saturday january 5,1991 a 1 t to v a j o a. T a i r t to it y.4?i a Kew Whf Wutti Iel Ilia ten a a a k mgt a a pm v s a v a a j a a or a a a l it James Resto Bush s Best in Gulf May not get Job done question who a in charge of the 1991 new world order. Answer i am in charge George Herbert Walker Bush president of the ignited states. Q what do you do a a i make bad men behave. Q gee you must be Busy. How do you do it a i Tell them to get out of countries they be stolen like Kuwait by Jan. 15 or i la kick them in the ass a excuse me i mean 1 May bomb them to bits. Q do you own Kuwait i mean you kill a lot of Kuwait people would they like that did you ask them a. Let me explain. I have to make an example of bad. F0 live in. Men or Well never have a new world order Tor you to we must save Kuwait even if we have to destroy it. We must get rid of men like Saddam Hussein who take Over other countries. Q How do you do that a by Bluff and bribe or War if necessary. Q i see. But Why do you have to kill a lot of americans and Kuwait people to get rid of this one bad Man can to you starve him out a takes too Long. You see we have More than 400,000 soldiers in the desert there and it gets too hot for them there in summer. Q is that new did no to you know it got hot in the desert in summer a that a Why i said out by Jan. 15 or else q who gave you permission to wage War after Jan. 157. A the United nations that a who. They Are United in opposing bad men who commit aggression and they band together to fight people like Saddam who do. Q a of them a we have a worldwide coalition at our Side. It is not the United states versus Iraq but the world versus a the United nations keeps the to-., Gether for collective Security. Twenty seven nations have joined us in the desert and 12 Are ready to fight. Q but if the others do nothing Isnit that selective Security and not collective Security a look Vou re too Young to understand what happens when bad men like Saddam Are not stopped in time. A a a a Quot a a a a a a -. A �.���. A a As vice president Dan Quayle said there is great danger in being too patient with dictators. Q is he an expert i heard the other Day that he thinks Mohammed was a prize fighter. A a you be been Reading the new York times Haven Tellen Goodman you you should be More selective in what you read. Do you listen to television q. I listened to the old chairmen of the joint chiefs of staff advising you to wait and i listened to sen. Kennedy. F a a a a a. Please done to use that name in this House. Do you Ever listen to me q every Day several times a Day. I heard you say we were sending All those men to defend saudi Arabia and you did it so Why not claim Victory and bring the boys Home a a _ _. _ a because Saddam Hussein would still be there working on his atomic bombs and planning to take Over the Oil Fields of the Middle East and that would Cost a lot More Money at the Gas pumps of the Middle West. Q will Saddam live forever. A not if 1 have anything to do with it. Q if he a losing $100 million a Day because he can to sell his Oil How Many millions does he have a plenty and he does no to have to balance a budget the Way 1 do. He does no to have to put up with soldiers telling him they wont be ready to fight by Jan. 15, and he does no to have to listen to congressmen questioning and even distrusting his what a wrong with talking to Saddam he says he a ready to talk about a peaceful settlement in the whole Middle East including Israel and the palestinians a a a. A a a a a a. A a a its an anti semitic trick. Let him read my lips Jim Baker wont talk to hip either. Hell Tell him to get out and get lost and do what we say before Jan. 15. In be had it a q so you a rather fight than talk is that the new world order a. No i am a Man of peace. As i said when i was nominated i want a Kinder gentler America living in a world of Law but sometimes you have to fight for peace. I admit that this problem is very complicated but in a doing the Best i can q please excuse me or. President but that a what worries me. New York tunes a women making big Trade off for Equality my Friend called to deliver seasons greetings and second thoughts. The greetings come seriously deliberately. A Happy new year is nothing to be assumed As the Odds against it amass in the desert. The second thoughts come More haltingly. V. This is what she has seen on her television set Over the holidays. A _ men and women in uniform saying Chi Momy to the television camera. Men and women in uniform saying a Chi kids to the children they be left behind. At least once she heard a Small boy talk proudly and sadly about his parents who were both overseas. The boy was at his grandmothers House. One other time she saw a husband holding up a baby to the camera to wave to my Friend considers herself rational even Tough minded. When others sympathized with soldiers who signed up for school and ended up at War she did not. Joining the army she said is like joining the fire department. You have to expect a Blaze. A More to the Point she is among the Region of women who heartily applauded the integration of the military who saw a coed army As inevitable As right. The Mother of a son and a daughter she did not agree that there was anything less horrible about a boy in a body bag. R if the thought of women dying in com a Bat was too chilling she said let it chill the passion for War altogether. But that was theory. The second thoughts she is having these Days As images Bounce off satellites from half a world away arc not As Tough As her usual . It is the mothers at War especially the mothers of Young children a who have touched her heart if not her mind. Did wre a women she Means a get More Equa juy than we bargained for this is not the first time i have heard unease these Days even from the most egalitarian quarters. Women wonder if somehow it Wasny to their pressure for equal rights that landed these younger women in the desert. Their concern Isnit unlike the second thoughts about Young mothers struggling with infant care and work with two jobs or one income. Second thoughts about whether life is More challenging or just harder now. I know what my Friend is feeling having shared her second thoughts. But today i Tell her at first what she already knows. War does not respect motherhood whether military or civilian. In All the we ars of the 1980s, three out of every four people killed were civilians. Women and their children were not a a protected in Kuwait. Nor will they be protected in Baghdad or Riyadh if War truly just War i argue a War of Sel defense of survival is worthy of sacrifice. A War any less moral a War confused in its purpose is unworthy of any lost to say a conflict is Worth the sacrifice of men but not women fathers but not mothers is to plea bargain with the gods. But this does not counter her second thoughts. Remember she says when women first supported the idea that mothers were like fathers most of us assumed that working beside men fighting beside them was part of a Trade off. In return Nuen would father More and women would become decision makers. It was a Deal we were making. Now in Thev lopsided Ness of change fewer women have made it to the top than have filled in the Bottom. More women Are on the front lines than in the inner Circle. What happened Deal my Friend draws a. Border around that photograph in the paper of George Busl and the fabulous Baker boy. She says in word Quot Quot the men in suits Are still making Thi policy moves. Only now they have Militar pawns of both genders. We Are too realistic to think that every thing would be different if women Hai titles of Power. But we cannot believe they we Ould be exactly the same. So these images a a a suits drawing lines in the Sand and babies waving t a a Mommy soldiers a become secon thoughts. If this is what Equality looks like wer we better off before a Only of course this is not what equal to looks like. This is what it looks like i the Middle of lopsided change in the or even unsettling process on a path Thi looks More rugged and More circuit of than we knew at the beginning. In the desert the to incr soldiers want ing to their children Are not a remind that women have gotten More than w bargained for. But that we have gotten s much less. 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