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To: chomolungma who wrote (67725)	2/11/2003 10:41:06 AM
From: runes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

Negotiate with Sadam... Since this is the easiest one I will tackle it first - The UN peace treaties from the Gulf war set up conditions to do exactly as you suggest - disarm (the WMD) and we will lift the embargo and then you can go on about your merry business. As Chomolungma points out, a savy Sadam would have gone through the drill in about a year and then spent the next five years laying the groundwork for re-establishing his enterprises. And then popped back up as big and as bad as ever. But Sadam 1) has a pathological addiction to the concept that he never backs down 2) has a psychological addition to WMD (it makes him bigger and badder than he really is) and 3) Miscalculated that the west would eventually get tired of playing cat and mouse and just go away. So, as a practical matter, offering Sadam financial carrots won't work. Ironically, something like making Iraq part of the permanent UN security council and a part of NATO would be a more fruitful approach. Likewise for North Korea. Both are cults of personality aimed at forcing respect.