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Reports that Iraq, Libya and Israel are test cases of U.S. President George Bush's 1992 Middle East policy and the new world order. Plan to remove the governments in those countries; Resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict; Role of the administration of U.S. President George Bush in the Arab-Israeli peace process; Sanctions laid down on Libya by the U.S.; Withdrawal of the loan guarantees made earlier to the Israeli government by the U.S.; Statement that the new world order points to a significant change in U.S. Middle East policy, despite an apparent continuity of American interests in the region; Policy of the U.S. towards the Gulf War.

Examines U.S. President George Bush's so-called plan for New World Order (NWO) after the successful conclusion of the Persian Gulf War. Benefits from the NWO, according to the administration; Fear by many Americans that the U.S. will be the world's policeman; View by many foreigners that it will be a post-cold-war American grab for hegemony; Role of the Soviet Union in the NWO; Possible pitfalls in Bush's NWO plan which is comparable to the Truman and Eisenhower administrations' actions after World War II.

The article discusses U.S. president George H.W. Bush's leadership during the end of the Cold War and U.S. involvement in expelling Iraq from Kuwait during the Gulf War. It compares his presidency to that of former U.S. president Dwight Eisenhower, particularly what the authors identify as their principled and gracious approach to the office and foreign relations.

Assesses the impact of the Persian Gulf War on the United States Democratic Party. Advantages provided by the result of the war for the Republicans; Conflict within the Democratic Party over domestic problems; Failure of the Democrats to learn from the Gulf War about their basic political liabilities; Democratic Party's goal of shifting the public's focus to domestic issues; Strategy of portraying President George Bush as being attentive to foreign policy but negligent of domestic concerns; Two schools of thought in the Democratic Party for a domestic agenda.

Comments on the debate over the war against Iraq. Argument that the American government should not limit its objectives to dislodging the Iraqis from Kuwait, or limit its means to air power; Use of the country's air superiority to keep the Iraqis pinned won in Kuwait to secure the overturning of the Baathist regime in Baghdad and central Iraq; Liberal support for the use of force against an actively expansionary regime that has all the hallmarks of totalitarianism.

Presents the recollections of the United States Army general regarding the last hours of the 1991 Persian Gulf War. His recollections of February 27, when US President George Bush made the decision to cease hostilities; The coalition's achievement of its objectives, even though it did not completely destroy all of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's military forces; The atmosphere among President Bush's advisors.

Argues that, contrary to popular opinion, United States President George H.W. Bush's conduct of foreign policy lacks professionalism and vision. His misjudgment of the changes in the Soviet Union after the cold war; Error of making Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev the center of American diplomacy; Failure of the Gulf War to remove Saddam Hussein from power; Plight of the Kurds in Iraq; Pressuring Israel into concessions before a peace conference is convened; Policy in Europe and in relation to the European Community.

Criticizes the U.S. policy of appeasing Syria and helping it virtually annex Lebanon. Participation of Syria in the anti-Iraq coalition during the Persian Gulf War because the Iraqi Ba'ath and the Syrian Ba'ath have long been vying with each other to dominate the region; Failure to consider the sins Syria committed against the American people in the past; Secretary of State James Baker and President George Bush's plan to convince Israel to give up the Golan Heights; Decision of the U.S. government to insist on a U.N. presence at Arab-Israeli peace talks; Author's claim that the appeasement of Syria will probably fail on its own terms.

Argues that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's conduct of the war has been very sound. Strategy of killing appreciable numbers of Americans and surviving physically; Goal of retaining his heroic reputation established by stalwart resistance to American threats and American firepower; Author's observation that the buildup of American and allied ground forces in the Gulf region was actually an opportunity for Hussein who lacked any real offensive means; Criticism against U.S. strategy.

Examines U.S. President George Bush's so-called plan for New World Order (NWO) after the successful conclusion of the Persian Gulf War. Phrase developed by Brent Scowcroft, Bush's national security adviser; Concept of collective security; Defeat of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein as a deterrent to other potential aggressors; Idea that this collective security is actually unilateral American action with a multilateral cover; Moral issue in the Gulf War and the NWO; Bush's debate with Edmund Browning, the presiding bishop of Bush's church, the Episcopal Church.

Comments on issues pertaining to politics and government in the United States. Irony in the fact that those who argued for delaying the war against Iraq for as long as possible are now complaining that it isn't ending fast enough; Obstacles to ending the Gulf war; Sunnites' power throughout the Arab world; Efforts to maintain a Gulf balance of power; U.S. Secretary of State James Baker's record of compromising President Bush's war policies.

Comments on United States President George Bush's policy on Iraq, and the political issues surrounding the Gulf war. Bush's attempt to lead the country into the "next American century," as he put it in his State of the Union; Statement issued by White house Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater that the Bush administration does not believe that the Gulf conflict is a partisan issue; Moral issues concerning the Gulf war; Optimism of the Bush administration that the U.S. will win the war, creating a "New World Order".

Reports that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is committing genocide against the Shiites. Reluctance of journalists to cover events in Southern Iraq; Argument pertaining to the negotiation of the U.S. with Saddam over details of U.N. inspection; Consequences of the Persian Gulf War on Middle East politics.

Comments on the Persian Gulf war. Media coverage of the war; Estimated number of Iraqi casualties; Assertion that all human behavior is determined jointly by genes and environment beginning nine months before birth; Moral and ethical issues relating to war; Need to give some moral values to the enemies of the United States; Author's support for a military strategy that would involve a few days of air strikes setting back Iraq's nuclear and chemical arms program.

Asserts that patient American-led diplomacy is needed to sort out the inevitable loose ends of the war against Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Current state of the Middle East; Plight of the Kurds; International supervision; Visits by US Secretary of State James Baker to Israel; Potential for Arab-Israeli peace; Details; Outlook.