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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: tejek who wrote (480665)5/14/2009 12:06:57 PM
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"Nonetheless, Saddam was contained. He was going nowhere."

He was going nowhere for the moment but he had good reason to remain cocky and defiant. He was building alliances and was gradually whittling the sanctions to the fine point of pointlessness.

Only if you foolishly believe geopolitics of the world are unchangeable, could you think the resources needed to keep him contained him were indefatigable or that they would be supported until the end of time.

And then you have to ask yourself if containing him in this fashion was as Albright stated it was 'worth it.'
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