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To: tekboy who wrote (57423)	11/16/2002 1:49:55 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) of 281500

The best arguments that I've seen in favor are presented in the following essay by John Mearsheimer and Steve Walt. It should be read in conjunction with the Pollack chapter to help people make up their minds. Unsurprisingly, I think Pollack has the easier job making the "not deterrable" arguments. Mearsheimer and Walt have to do some fancy footwork to declare Iraq's invasion of Iran and use of CW against its cities "rational". Nor are they "hey, everybody makes wars in that neighborhood arguments" very persuasive (you knew I'd be thrilled with an argument that compared Israel's first strike in 1967 to Saddam's invasion of Kuwait, right?). Worst of all are those campaigns that Mearsheimer and Walt simply omit: the Anfal campaign against the Kurds, the campaigns against the Shia, and the attempt to reinvade Kuwait in 1994. Even the claim that Saddam was successfully deterred from using CW in the Gulf War is not based on known facts - he might have given the order.

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