John,
SH was an aggressor in 1991. The policy put in place by Bush #1 and continued through Clinton had made him impotent.
I think the Iraqi's would differ with you on this issue. He was certainly not impotent to them. As would victims of Palestinian suicide bombers (compensated by Saddam).
Now if the US had worked through NATO and the UN and said this guy is a humanitarian nightmare, maybe we could have put together a coalition that would have figured a way to knock him out. Maybe it wouldn't have been a war, maybe it would have been a war. Regardless, if the world was united on this thing, I think that the situation would be far different.
Yup, I couldn't agree with you more. The thugs attack Americans, but if the UN had a presence there, along with Red Cross, troops from Britain, Italy, Poland, they would not be targeted. And the thugs would immediately stop making car bombs, become law abiding citizens, and they would recycle.
Joe |
