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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: stockman_scott who wrote (70732)2/1/2003 6:33:17 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Since it is obvious that Saddam Hussein has the capability and desire to build an arsenal of prohibited weapons and probably has some of them hidden within his country, what can be done to prevent the development of a real Iraqi threat? The most obvious answer is a sustained and enlarged inspection team, deployed as a permanent entity until the United States and other members of the U.N. Security Council determine that its presence is no longer needed

And does President Carter propose that we keep 100,000 American troops stationed permanently on the borders of Iraq to ensure Iraq's (pretended) cooperation with the inspections? We aren't even getting real cooperation now, though we are making a dead-serious threat of invasion, and here Carter blithely assures us that another round of UN inspections "enforced" by more UNSC resolutions will do the trick this time, as if we didn't have eleven years experience of their total uselessness to guide us.

Another round of this foolishness - especially after the current military build-up - would serve to convince the entire Mideast that the word of the US is worthless, and it doesn't matter how big and strong the US army is, because the US is scared to death of actually fighting a war. The only logical consequence of such a course of action would see sanctions lifted, the US out of Iraq, US credibility crushed, and Saddam handed a great and obvious victory.

The question is, does President Carter want to see this outcome or is he just the world's biggest fool?
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