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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

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To: Dayuhan who wrote (218275)2/14/2007 12:21:29 PM
From: Don Hurst  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
>>" There were excellent reasons for concerted multilateral action against Iraq. Sanctions were causing great misery to Iraqis but having no effect on Saddam. Sustaining sanctions and no-fly zones indefinitely was insupportable, but lifting them would have been surrender, and would only have encouraged Saddam to re-arm, resume violent suppression of dissident ethnic groups, and eventually take a bite of another neighbor. If sanctions couldn't be lifted or sustained, what options were available? "<<

What a bunch of baloney...
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