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To: Original Mad Dog who wrote (6164)	3/21/2003 11:03:48 AM
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Another letter to the editor in today's WSJ: Annan's Argument Is Misleading In his March 12 editorial-page article, "U.N.'s Authority Can Be Enhanced If It Stays United," Kofi Annan, secretary-general of the U.N., writes: "All over the world, people want to see this crisis resolved peacefully. They are alarmed about the great human suffering that war always causes." I hear this said repeatedly, yet it is a misleading and even deceitful argument against going to war with Saddam. No humane person would disagree that peace, in absolute terms, is preferable to war. But Mr. Annan's statement does not give him the moral high ground for which he is looking, for he fails to define peace. Consider that Hitler, Stalin and Mao killed more people outside of combat than those who died in World War I and II. Was that peace more moral than war? Saddam has been responsible for many deaths. Is retreat in the name of peace more moral than building on the success in Afghanistan and doing everything possible to stop further death at the hands of dictators and terrorists? Maybe Mr. Annan has not yet grasped the reality that, thanks to terrorists and ruthless dictators, the world is already at war. People have died in New York and Bali. They are dying in the jungles of the Philippines, the deserts of Afghanistan and the torture cells of Baghdad. There is certainly more death by terrorism to come. Mr. Annan writes that the Security Council's "primary responsibility [is] for the maintenance of international peace and security." The Security Council has failed to maintain peace and security through diplomacy, resolutions, inspections, doublespeak, horse-trading and blind eyes. Hiding behind the pretense of peace is immoral. It's time for the Security Council to live up to its own charter and use force to re-establish the road to peace. Sam Baker Hong Kong