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To: Steeny who wrote (81427)	3/12/2003 2:27:14 AM
From: kumar	Respond to of 281500

disarmament is not a question of time, but rather a question of attitude South Africa, after apartheid, is a good example.

To: Steeny who wrote (81427)	3/12/2003 2:31:29 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

This blame the enforcers argument is not credible. I'm not blaming anybody, just pointing out that nobody was terribly concerned with enforcement, for reasons we all know. We don't know how an extended and aggressive system of enforcement would have worked. It might not have achieved the desired goal. It would, however, have allowed us to approach the next step with the ability to confidently say to our own people and to others that all reasonable alternatives had been exhausted. It would have made it much, much, easier to sell the war to our allies, and develop a broad coalition. That would have made a difference. Regarding Bush administration attitudes toward Iraq pre 9-11, Bob Woodward's book makes it pretty clear that regime change was on the agenda. Might have been on the agenda, but I doubt that it would have ever gotten off the back burner. Political will would not have been there, and there would have been no compelling reason to suffer the political consequences.