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...ritual humiliation of arms inspections may not be the only factor weighing on Saddam's strategic calculations. He may truly believe that weapons of mass destruction are essential to his regime's survival. Chemical weapons became an integral part of Iraq's artillery arsenal during the war against Iran as the most effective defense against Iran's "human wave" infantry assaults. Saddam is also reportedly convinced that the reason U.S. troops didn't march on Baghdad in 1991 was fear of his unconventional arsenal...
...given Saddam a week to decide a fundamental strategic course: How much of his unconventional arsenal does he want to keep? Should he continue to maintain that there is no such arsenal, and risk any exposure giving Washington a "smoking gun"? By accepting the resolution, he has given his government 30 days to come up with a comprehensive inventory of its weapons programs, and again, any substantial omissions will also provide Washington with grounds for war. It may be even harder to play the concealment game now, because after four years without inspections to monitor, Saddam's own intelligence services...
...accumulation of disorder in Pakistan is such that it could well be the next Yugoslavia," Weaver warns in Pakistan: In the Shadow of Jihad and Afghanistan (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 284 pages). Worse, actually--it's Yugoslavia with an atomic arsenal that could fall into the hands of terrorists should the country disintegrate. It also has a dozen or so private Islamic militias, all eager to install a religious regime, and a powerful intelligence service--"a kingdom within the state," she calls it--shot through with bin Laden sympathizers...
...make the singer say something were met only by reticent nods and waves. Beck did start to break out of his shell on the Rick James-meets-Kraftwerk jam “Get Real Paid,” getting freaky at the front of the stage with his arsenal of B-boy and robot dance moves. But even with his soulful Mick Jagger strut, Beck looked like he was going through the motions. If the audience’s energy flagged too at times, it was, to steal a line from Beck, nobody’s fault...
...could say it's a good sign," he said. In the short term, hard-liners inside the Administration will resist rewarding Kim for giving up weapons. While the U.S. is not prepared to fight a three-front war, there are plenty of Bush advisers who believe North Korea's arsenal can't be dismantled without regime change--and they will come back to the argument once Iraq is behind them...