European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 9, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf commander of . Forces in the persian Gulf. A a Good war1  continued from Page 13. A seeing hat Central casting sent us the. Perfect Arab villain Quot says Eliot Cohen who is a both a Captain in the army Reserve and a professor at the Johns Hopkins school of. Advanced International studies. Meanwhile Cohen to a the House armed service committee  picture that the iraqis have of the american fighting Man is not. A John Wayne but the helicopters on the roof of the embassy in Saigon and the bombing of the Marine Barracks in Beirut a Saddam has said As  a.  1 Ltd a in a Good War the other Guy starts it. He in t just a bad Guy. He has to attack us. The. Japanese had Boon crushing countries on three continents for. Years before Pearl Harbor roused americans to fight. If Saddam attacked us a even a provocation As Small As the Blurry fracas Thal provoked Congress into passing the Tonkin Gulf Resolution in 190-5 a National Unity might be ours remember Pearl a Bor the Lusitania the Maine the Alamo. We seem to need.,. Catalysts. So now Hank Williams or. Sings a a threatening song addressed to Saddam Don t give us a reason. So far he Hasni to a Good War does t seem to have much to a do with the goodness of Bur allies. Not Only was Stalin a Butcher out to conquer the a world but he d been Allied with Hitler. The italians fought on both sides in the Good War. So what s a Little medieval autocracy in saudi a Arabia who cares if our chaplains Aren t a a a allowed to Wear their crosses on their lapels. The Good War is not ambiguous or ironic. There is no colonel saying Quot i love the smell of napalm in the morning,�?T1 As Robert Duvall Quot a a says in apocalypse now. There is no real i life colonel saying As one actually said at. Ben tre Vietnam Quot we had to destroy the. Village in order ,&Quot and there Are no a truckloads of troopers driving past the Media a shouting Quot we re not supposed to be Here. This ish t our War Why Are we Here Quot a this. Happened during Bush s thanksgiving visit to saudi Arabia a Quot if any evidence were needed that Force is. Not obsolete in the 1990s, Saddam Hussein a has provided it Quot says Bruce w. Jentleson in a a the just published Winter Brookings review. A. But with no Pearl Harbor or Alamo to remember the american Public has seemed Mere come doable with the idea of defending sat Mil Arabia than attacking Iraq when the tanks  went into Kuwait. The Public Lud Quot doubts about offence o  action ail  Jentleson says. Quot what they had been strongly supportive of a was defending saudi  a Usa today poll on aug. 9, for instance showed that 81 percent of the Public approved of sending. Troops to saudi Arabia while 49 percent approved of invading Iraq and Only 35percent were in favor of bombing Iraq other a. Polls in August showed similar feelings. A Jentleson has studied Public reaction to a decade of american use or support of Force a in Libya Lebanon Afghanistan Nicaragua Panama and Al Salvador concluding that a new concepts of a Good War mean that a the a american Public contend is much More Likely to support the use of Force when it a. A a perceives the objective As the restraint rather. Than the remaking of another government Quot consequently Jentleson says Quot when k. President Bush announced on nov. 8 a. Doubling of . Forces to nearly .400,000 troops and a shift in strategy to insuring an  adequate offensive military option a the a consensus began to crack congressional. Leaders became much More critical Public opinion polls foil sharply and the first teach. Ins sprang up on College campuses Quot a. A in a Good War we Are Quot innocent. A a �., in suspect ,.the underdog the victim Quot a a says Van Johnson but this Means that we re Unready for it As we were in world War ii a. A country made by War Geoffrey Perret writes Quot the idea of perennial unread Ness fits Trio american self image of a peace Ioa my people  reluctantly into War. Civilians and military men alike find that a idea appealing. For another thing it is the Quot stuff of epic drama a the ultimate Triumph. After near defeat of Good Over evil us Over a them Quot the Good War is fought with american a know How ingenuity and Industrial might a a modern Cannon from Yankee factories the. Great White Fleet of the late 19th-Century, the 8-17, by Mcnamara s electronic Walhan Vietnam the f-1.11s that attacked Gauhati. In Libya they will win the War cheaply a efficiently and scientifically. A in wartime culture critic Paul Fussell k says that the Start of world War ii was a much like the persian Gulf buildup Quot at first everyone hoped and Many believed that the War would be fast moving mechanized Remote controlled and / perhaps even rather easy. Quot. \ a As John Updike has written Quot America a is beyond Pover it acts As in a dream As a. Face of god wherever America is there is. Freedom an wherever America is not a madness rules with chains darkness strangles millions beneath her patient bombers Paradise is  a. We have a pascular Romance with air a Power and last August when cynics suggested it had t turned Vietnam into a Good War j the answer was Quot Ain t soirees Quot to hide Linder in the desert 1 since world k War ii the definition of the Good War has become one thing for intellectual Pokey makers and another for the rest of us. A among the intellectuals of the 1950s and 19g0s. A Good War was a tool rather than a the stars and stripes wednesday. J