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...As Secretary General Annan said about his own dealings with [raq, "You can do a lot with diplomacy, but of course you can do a lot more with diplomacy backed up by firmness and force.'" Still, bombing would almost inevitably have inflicted civilian casualties on a population already impoverished by seven years of UN economic sanctions and terrorized for decades by its putative leader...
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...Certainly, the Clinton administration must make a more persuasive and consistent case to the American people and to the international community concerning the imperative of disarming Iraq...
...In short, containing Iraq and the threat its weapons of mass destruction present to the stability of the entire region is going to continue to be a kind of high-stakes poker game where all parties involved are unwilling to leave the table but desperate not to have their bluffs called...
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...Iraq's envoy to the UN has already begun to undermine the authority of Richard Butler, the chairman of the UN's inspection program, by asserting that diplomats, not Butler's professionals, will control the inspections of so-called "presidential palaces...
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...Worse, although bombing would have weakened Iraq's conventional military power, it was unlikely to destroy much, if any, of the regime's biological and chemical capability...
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...http://www.com m on weal magazine,org I~@ __~ I I ~141 IIIIIIF@~ A f r a g i l e f i x he last-minute reprieve for Saddam Hussein, negotiated by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, has forestalled certain military action against Iraq by the United States--at least unless and until lraq once more blatantly impedes the work of the UN arms inspectors...
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...But what complicates any justwar assessment of proportionality is the disproportionate danger posed by biological Commonweal 5 March 1,3, 1998 and chemical weapons--the fact that only a few such weapons can endanger the lives of millions, and perhaps the very peace of the world...
...But doing all that can justly be done to deprive Saddam Hussein of weapons of mass destruction remains one of the best ways the U.S...
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...The likely consequence of any possible future attack on Israel--the retaliatory use of nuclear weapons--certainly represents a far greater threat to Iraqi civilians than either sanctions or any limited U.S...
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...Iraq's conventional military power has indeed been significantly reduced...
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...Until the 1980s, many in the West believed that the Communist model, in its Russian and Chinese versions, could defeat the West...
...In Japan, where the East Asian model originated, the nation's ability to adapt its economic system to changing circumstances in the 1990s was handicapped by the country's political lethargy, a legacy of World War II and of the cold war...
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...It is equally obvious that no one, including the Clinton administration, was very happy with the idea of a punitive bombing campaign...
...But it, too, had, and has, an internal contradiction: its dependence upon exportled growth is ultimately irreconcilable with its protectionism...
...forces, Iraq targeted Israel with these missiles and with remote-controlled planes equipped with germ bombs...
...Isn't lraq bankrupt and militarily impotent at this point...
...In short, it seems clear that the dilemma of what to do about Iraq's possession of biological and chemical weapons and defiance of the UN has not been resolved, but only put on hold...
...Many fair-minded people are uncomfortable with the preeminent role the United States seems fated to play in this and other international conflicts...
...It is a legitimate outgrowth of East Asian social institutions, developed over the course of the region's history...
...Is not continuing to impose such suffering on the Iraqi people out of all proportion to whatever good the sanctions might achieve in hobbling Iraq's war machine...
Vol. 125 • March 1998 • No. 5
