Paul E. Roush

About the Author: Paul E. Roush is a professor at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. A retired Marine Corps colonel, Roush served as combat officer during the Vietnam War.

The months preceding hostilities in the Persian Gulf Conflict made for some interesting reading. Columnist Mark Shields wrote in the Washington Post on November 2, 1990 that those who were urging the use of force in the liberation of Kuwait were bellicose hypocrites! Their sin was the commitment of an army without the commitment of the nation. “If this war is worth Americans’ fighting and dying for,” he said, then it must first be worth calling to service the sons of anchormen and of senators, (the sons) of Cabinet members and college presidents, the sons) of columnists and...