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To: maceng2 who wrote (18904)	2/15/2002 6:24:14 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Pollack's logic leaves a bit to be desired. How can Saddam someone who at the same time has taken deterrence to heart and still be an inveterate and almost pathological risk-taker, i.e., someone who is not subject to the punishing logic of deterrence? It seems that Saddam does understand deterrence, provided that the huge risks he incurs are made sufficiently clear to him. He will probably not go nuclear if he believes that Iraq will be turned into a parking lot in return. The trick is to turn him into a believer. I think the Israelis have already gotten halfway there.

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