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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: FaultLine who wrote (11682)11/27/2001 1:10:10 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Well, this article does mention the basic reason they didn't just take out Saddam during the Gulf war when the time was ripe.

There was a real fear of the effects a vacuum of power would have brought on, especially with the Kurds in the eastern part of Turkey. It might have been a royal mess. But it was and is totally unrealistic to think that economic sanctions and a cat and mouse game of inspections would keep any of these totalitarian regimes in line. Has this *ever* worked?? Simple economic common sense will tell anyone that economic sanctions will destroy a civilian economy, leaving the regimes which are hardly running welfare states, intact.

I don't know what we're going to do about Iraq, but at least we don't appear to be following the same path in Afghanistan.

Before the stuff with the USSR started, Afghanistan was religiously moderate and on the way to modernization. I believe there's nothing intrinsic to prevent that from happening again.
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