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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: KyrosL who wrote (136421)6/12/2004 11:13:02 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
If we had spent one tenth of the resources we spent on the war (and none of the lives) tightening up the sanctions and shutting down the smuggling, Saddam would have collapsed within the decade.


That was beyond our power. It required the cooperation of Turkey, Syria and Jordan, who were NOT cooperating, since they profited greatly from the smuggling, and of the UNSC, where France and Russia (who had Billions of reasons to want to lift the sanctions) were not cooperating either - just the reverse.

Do you remember what happened to Colin Powell in 2001 when he went to the UN and tried to tighten the sanctions? He got his head handed to him.
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