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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (202680)9/13/2006 1:38:08 AM
From: Hawkmoon  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Bad guys with nukes are bad guys with nukes. Bad guys with nukes and without oil are bad guys. Bad guys without nukes and with oil are bad guys with nukes and the ability to launch in 45 minutes with a remote controlled model airplane that can fly from Iraq to NYC.

Indeed they are. But that's NOT the reason for considering Saddam to be "low-hanging fruit".

The difference between Saddam and all of these other "bad guys" is that Saddam invaded Kuwait, and as a result was under the sanction of the United Nations via well over a dozen BINDING UNSC resolutions.

Had those sanctions been lifted, there's just no way Bush could have possessed a sufficient "casus belli" for overthrowing Saddam.

It's the reason that this adminstration was pushing for both the Iranian nuclear enrichment standoff, as well as the question of Hizbullah in Lebanon to be resolved as BINDING resolutions, and not under Chapter 6 of the UN charter. Chapter VI resolutions have no enforcement mandate, which is quite unlike a Chapter VII resolution which can actually allow for the use of military power as an enforcement mechanism.

It makes very little sense attempting to engage in negotiations with most totalitarian regimes WITHOUT the implicit threat that intransigent provocation of the demands of the international community might lead to military force being utilized to resolve the goal of the binding resolution.

Hawk
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