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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (91354)4/9/2003 12:38:42 AM
From: Sarmad Y. Hermiz  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
>> What actions to enforce it would you have considered acceptable?

It would still have come to "regime change" in the end. I never could figure out why the Kurdish success in their autonomy could not be extended to more areas in the North of Iraq. And why the campaign to "Arabize" Kirkuk was not seen as a violation of UN resolutions. There was already a resolution authorizing assuring the safety of humanitarian effort in the North of Iraq. Its borders could have been enlarged to include Mosul and Kirkuk. And the local population could easily hold it, with US air support. Just like the Kurds of Irbil and Sulaimania held their areas.

Basically the northern third of the country would already be having democracy and OK human rights protection. I think that would have been accomplished with very little bloodshed. The mere fact of patrolling the skies of the northern area allowed the Kurds to keep the Baghdad government out. As you may have noticed, the North third of Iraq is very quiet in this war. And they are not rushing to the defense of the Baath regime in Baghdad.

This de facto liberated area could have been achieved at any time in the past ten years, including the 1st two years of the current admin. But the US was wrongly focussed on wmd. Which makes everyone question its motives, because as has been demonstrated, after all this loss of life, the threat was way over-exagerated.
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