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Article: Lessons learned. (Henry Lewis Stimson's influence on George Bush) (editorial)
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- January 21, 1991
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If I heard it once from the P.L.O. people in Amman, I heard it a dozen times. " If Kuwait produced carrots instead of oil, are you asking us to believe that George Bush would have sent 400,000 troops to the gulf?. " Well, maybe not, if only because if Kuwait only grew carrots, it wouldn't have been so tempting to Saddam Hussein. Even so, I told my Arab hosts, you don't understand George Bush. And I would tell them what I believe to be, if not the "defining anecdote," at least a story that explains a good deal about Bush's actions in the gulf. It is this:
On June 14, 1940, four days before Charles de Gaulle's fateful radio broadcast from London announcing the ...