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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (117594)10/24/2003 1:47:33 PM
From: Sun Tzu  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Nadine, do not complain. The sanctions were producing exactly the results we had wanted. What changed was that we opted for a different risk/reward profile. Two principles can always be kept in mind: (1) there is always more than one way to get what you want and (2) you can have anything you want, but not everything you want. So we were upset that the French had contracts in Iraq and we did not. Who was stopping us from having contracts there? Certainly not the French and the Russians.

As you pointed out in a recent post, the very rich and the very poor never participate in a revolution. So it seems to me that if we really had wanted to get rid of Saddam, rather than 10 years of starvation, we would have implemented policies that would make the middle class in Iraq stronger and then helped them in a revolt. This is but only one of many solutions.
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