Do you not believe in this policy?
I have very mixed feelings about it. I think it might generate a tolerable situation that would get us by until Saddam can be overthrown and replaced with a democratic government. But over the long term, if we aren't able to install a workable government, I do not believe weapons inspections are viable. Bush may very well just be aiming high to get what he wants.
The problem, of course, is that if the weapons inspectors ARE reinstalled (or some other negotiated arrangement is made), there is the risk that when they get close to what he wants to hide, he'll once again refuse them access. Then, we're back where we are today, except he has had that much more time to develop weapons.
We simply cannot allow this lunatic access to nukes. We can't do it; he will have not a second thought about using them against us, the Israelis, or his own people, which would then require us to defeat him soundly, undoubtedly taking huge numbers of innocent lives in the process.
Is that what you want to see?
Can't you see that weakness in military thinking leads to innocent deaths? Just look at Vietnam, or more recently, the Black Hawk Down incident. |
