How the United States and its Western allies might impose unity on this fragmented country remains unclear.

Nine months after the remarkably well-executed Desert Storm operation, and six months after it became clear that the allies had imposed on themselves an incomplete victory, a new debate is rising in Washington.

The US and its allies imposed an air-exclusion zone over northern Iraq to keep out Iraq warplanes and protect the Kurds.

In the months after the war to drive Iraqi troops from Kuwait in early 1991, the allies imposed a ban on the flight of fixed-wing aircraft over all of Iraq.

Howard's allies, the Radical Republicans, won control of Congress in the 1866 elections and imposed Radical Reconstruction, with the result that freedmen were given the vote.

"This is a humanitarian question, because America and its allies are imposing a blockade on Iraq," he said.

Rather, the United States and its allies imposed the zones, citing as justification earlier Security Council resolutions prohibiting Saddam Hussein's Government from repressing its own people.

While applauding the easing of the restrictions that the Soviet Union and its allies impose on their citizens' travel, Western governments have called on Vietnam to keep its people from leaving.

The United States and its allies have imposed curbs on flights over northern and southern Iraq, and have threatened to shoot down any Iraqi planes entering the area.

And do you think the British allies, or that the Western allies, should impose economic sanctions against Iran in retaliation?