THE GULF WAR: The International Front : Words on the War
“Wars do not end with a peace treaty. Despite President Bush’s repeated references to the lessons of World War II, there has been no discussion of what will happen once the peace is won. What comes with victory is an obligation to make right what we destroyed. Indeed, the Allies were planning for postwar Europe as early as 1942.
“However, Bush has shown no such inclination in this or his last military venture, Operation Just Cause. Manuel Noriega is gone but the drug trade in Panama continues . . . and our relations with Latin America were left in tatters.”
--DANIEL P. FRANKLIN, author of the forthcoming “Extraordinary Measures: The Exercise of Prerogative Powers in the United States”
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