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MORE specifically, he won't give economic sanctions a chance. According to the administration's own intelligence sources, the economic embargo is begining to bite. Although economic sanctions have been historically less successful than some imagine, the unprecedented, near-universal international support for the current embargo might help it succeed where others failed. Even if economic distress cannot unseat Saddam, it can hamper his ability to wage war. The sustenance of the Iraqi population and the readiness of its fighting forces decline with each day they go without supplies from abroad. Four out of the last five Secretaries of Defense...
...first people to suffer from the embargo will be those who have no chance of organizing opposition, such as the rural poor. An embargo is simply a war with casualties on one side, and is as unacceptable as a regular war. If it is within our power to stop such a catastrophe, we must do so immediately...
Sanctions have had an enormously deleterious effect on Iraq, surely; according to most analysts, the Iraqi GNP will be halved by the embargo, and the lack of spare parts will likely ground a part of the country's air force without the United States firing a shot...
...sheep men's miseries are not the countryside's only plight. Thanks to bumper harvests around the world, wheat farmers face their lowest returns in more than half a century, and the international embargo on exports to Iraq has also eliminated Australia's second-biggest customer. Aggravating the crisis is cutthroat grain dumping by the U.S. and the European Community; both unload surplus wheat overseas at subsidized prices...
Congress could pass resolutions supporting further diplomacy or urging more patience in pursuing the embargo. In either case, lawmakers would face political humiliation -- and a full-fledged constitutional crisis -- should the President decide to ignore them. But Bush may find his maneuvering room constrained by political expediency as well as constitutional forms: no President wants to risk taking on the whole responsibility for a U.S. war by himself...