What's funny is that you've been jabbering about this for the last year, ranting the same old rants, and still don't get it. Kofi Annan gets it, Andy Young gets it, why don't you?
Saddam has got to go and the only way he'll go without war is from unwavering pressure, to the point where he sees no other option. The US and more than a few like-minded allies are applying the greatest pressure and others are, for various fairly well-known reasons that have little to do with principles of peace or freedom, belief in multilaterism, or UN authority, resisting.
When this is over, Saddam will be gone. And it may very well happen without a large-scale war, an outcome made more likely, not less, by US and allied pressure. Furthermore, though French influence may suffer (Oh, what a loss. Ha!), the UN could actually be strengthened - it could become an institution that actually stands for something beyond idle talk and free illegal parking in NYC.
No, GST, war isn't funny. But you are. |
