Gulf war : what is the way out / Milton Viorst.**The

Milton Viorst, a correspondent for the New Yorker magazine, provides an historical perspective of the Persian Gulf region. He details United States objectives, Israeli objectives, the Iran-Iraq war, and the Iran-Contra affair. He also provides an alternative portrait of Saddam Hussein, and contrasts George Bush’s intransigence to John F. Kennedy’s flexibility during the Cuban Missile…