Word: embargo
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...brink of war with Iraq in part to help contruct a "new" world order. A month ago, we might have believed him. Administration envoys were crisscrossing the globe, building a coalition that has left Saddam Hussein almost friendless. The coalition built its strategy on a full-scale economic embargo, which has been enforced with unprecedented success...
...argument against an armed invasion rests simply on the plausibility of a successful, long-term embargo. And the Security Council decision on Thursday shows how such an embargo could succeed. The council has not voted to authorize the direct use of force in this way since the beginning of the Korean War, when the permanent Chinese seat was occupied by Nationalist China (Taiwan), and the Soviet Union was temporarily boycotting the Council...
...expensive to maintain an embargo, particularly for a period of months or years. But it is far less expensive than a war, and it costs far fewer lives. For all the assurances that an American invasion would be a quick, devastating affair, there are a dozen analysts, military strategists and combat veterans who claim the opposite...
...risks of a protracted groundwar are unacceptable if an embargo could accomplish the same ends...
THIS course of action does not aid the hundreds of American and other hostages who remain trapped in Iraq and Kuwait. How many of them will survive the severe hardship and possible hysteria that a successful long-term embargo might engender? It is possible that they will be reasonably well treated to maintain their status as "human shields"; it is just as possible that they will be used as leverage against American opinion in more sinister ways...