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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: carranza2 who wrote (139280)7/8/2004 10:11:33 AM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
And perhaps you are not capturing the meaning. And you certainly aren't looking at the Iraq/Iraq war very creatively. If you see that war as at least in part (in large part) an attempt to focus the population against an external enemy, and to subdue internal rebellion, it was a rather clever move. Hardly a "crazy" venture. Sure, he couldn't win the war, but was that really his goal? If his goal was to distract his population, it worked. Kuwait- different story. You have an ancient boundary dispute, and economic issues, and dear Ms. Glaspie telling Saddam we aren't interested. Since we approved the Iran/Iraq war why would Saddam have thought we would care about Kuwait, especially when he thinks he has asked us, and we've said "Nope, we're not interested."? Saddam was and could be deterred by the US- that's why he asked Glaspie in the first place.

I suspect he would have been deterred by Russia as well, had the Russians had any reason to deter him.
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