Reparations would be assessed against Iraq for having precipitated the crisis in the first place. I do not know if it will happen, or what rules might govern it. I am merely noting that that appears to be what the article you cite was talking about.
Yes, I think that they will be turned over to Iraqi management.
Iraq has nothing to fear from Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Jordan, or, very likely, even Syria. It had something to fear from Iran, but Iran does not look threatening in the near future, since it is undergoing pro- modernization turmoil. You, of course, ignore the ideological factor, just as all of those people ignored Mein Kampf, to their sorrow.
"The Arab leaders are being asked to go black or white, either to go against their own people or to go against the United States. They don't want to do either," says Said Aburish, a Palestinian author who has written a biography of Saddam Hussein. According to Mr. Aburish, the vice president is being told: "We don't like him [Hussein], we want him to go, but we cannot help you openly."
csmonitor.com
"Preemptive attack" is appropriate to the situation, a situation of exigency in regard to the build up of WMDs by rogue regimes. There is no mistaking of this situation with some other........ |
