President Bush's Desert Shield had indeed provoked a fierce family quarrel, with charges like Interventionist! and Isolationist! being hurled across the dinner table. There is more heat than light in this half-hour, but the central points do get raised. WFB: "Something should have been done about Hitler earlier than it was. Fifty-five million people were killed in World War II. We should have prevented it, right? Now if Hussein is allowed to develop a nuclear arsenal, it seems to me that he is of a temperament that simply casts aside normal humane considerations, as he did in Iran ..." GL: "If we manage to get him out of Kuwait and get him home again and nothing else, he'll consolidate his power and do it again. I think he is a threat." JS: "... this guy, in an eight-year war, could only take a 50-mile strip of Iran ... He just doesn't seem to me to be anything like a Hitler, much less a threat to us."