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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: carranza2 who wrote (73398)2/12/2003 4:44:13 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
This part doesn't make any sense to me:

So what does the European counterterrorist community propose to do about Saddam and his concealed weapons of mass destruction? He's back in his box, they argue, and subjected to the daily humiliation of U.N. inspectors officially authorized to run roughshod over Iraq's sovereignty. A few more months and the inspectors may get lucky with U.S. intelligence to guide them. Alternatively, Iraqi generals may screw up their courage and gang up on Saddam Soprano. But all such talk is dismissed by the war hawks as the prattle of appeasers.

Yeah, sure, Saddam is back in his box now that he has 200,000 troops on his borders. Can they stay there forever? Of course not. Suppose they do stay for another six months and Blix & co get lucky and find some chemical weapons. Well, what then? Will the the Europeans then say, okay you have a case for war? Don't be absurd, they will say, "Well, there you are, you see? Inspections are working." They already did this when the inspectors found 16 empty missiles.

So this European "answer" amounts to saying that American troops should sit on Saddam's borders forever (can you say "sitting ducks"?) while inspectors run round and round looking for the needle in a haystack.

Excuse me? Am I missing something here?
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