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To: Dayuhan who wrote (56397)	7/26/2004 11:23:58 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 794206

Repeting this won't make it true. Terrorists are finding more and safer havens in the territories of our nominal allies than they are in the supposed state sponsors of terrorism The biggest terrorist havens are in Syria and Iran, who are not our allies. It all comes down to land and money - you need both to run a war, the same for a terrorist war as the other kind. It was fairly widely disputed, as I recall. Whether containment was failing or not depends on your assumed objective. It was failing to remove Saddam, yes. It succeeded in reducing his military force to the point where he posed no meaningful threat Containment had several goals 1. Keep Saddam from attacking the neighbors. This part worked, but required active shooting in the no-fly zones. 2. Make Saddam cooperate with the 17 UN resolutions. This part failed miserably. 3. Make Saddam stop funding terrorists. Total failure - Pal suicide bombers, Salman Pak, training given to Al Qaeda. 4. Work a regime change. Total failure Meantime, we had our troops all over Saudi Arabia, Al Qaeda sprang up in response, Saddam puffed himself up as the Great Survivor, the neighbors broke the sanctions, Saddam spent billions while the Iraqis starved, and the UN was getting ready to ditch the sanctions altogether, and how could we have kept up the no-fly zones then? If this is your definition of success, I'm waiting to here your definition of failure.