World Watch

THE WORLD
Moving onto a War Footing
In the weeks leading up to the 1991 Gulf War, the first President George Bush drew a "line in the sand" for Iraq. In the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terror attacks on New York and Washington, his son drew lines for the entire world. Addressing a joint session of Congress — attended by the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair — George W. Bush demanded that Afghanistan's Taliban government hand over Osama bin Laden and his fighters and close down their training camps. "Either you are with...

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