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Containment is possible, at least theoretically. If Saddam pulls out peacefully, the U.S. and its allies can continue the embargo on military shipments to Iraq and perhaps create a regional security structure. But the Saudis recoil at the prospect of an enduring foreign-troop presence on their soil, even for the purpose of defending their kingdom, and a new region-wide defense pact is easier to conjure than to craft. The Kuwaitis would welcome an American presence indefinitely, but even they would prefer to avoid the complications that would invariably attend an open-ended effort to keep Saddam at home...
...ever claimed that Saddam % appreciates the untidiness of democracy -- then Baghdad undoubtedly took further comfort from the parade of skeptics counseling delay before Sam Nunn's Senate Armed Services Committee last week. Echoing other experts, a former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, David Jones, said that the economic embargo was "biting heavily" and that if the sanctions "work in 12 to 18 months . . . the trade-off of avoiding war with its attendant sacrifices and uncertainties would . . . be more than worth...
Because of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, Cardoen stands to lose millions. Since Chile is honoring the embargo against Baghdad, he was forced to cut off his lucrative contracts, the latest of which was for a $60 million plant in Iraq designed to produce fuses for bombs, artillery shells and rockets. The 31 Cardoen engineers who were working on the project have returned to Chile; it is not clear when, if ever, Cardoen will be paid. Cardoen also suffered a blow when U.S. officials refused to certify as airworthy his military adaptation of the Bell 206 helicopter, a move...
Having built his business by catering to the needs of renegade regimes like Chile's and Iraq's, Cardoen has no qualms about dealing with other pariahs. He has helped South African arms companies circumvent a global embargo by putting MADE IN CHILE labels on some of their weapons as part of co-production deals. His most recent customer for cluster bombs has been the repressive regime of Mengistu Haile Mariam in Ethiopia. In September 1989 Cardoen received his government's permission to sell Ethiopia up to 1,658 of the devices, at $7,000 apiece; the bombs have reportedly...
Although U.S. officials believe Iraq does not pose an imminent nuclear threat, they do not necessarily dismiss the wisdom of a continuing technological embargo and even a military strike to deter Saddam's atomic program before it gets much further. They argue that the reckless Iraqi leader might use or threaten to use nuclear weapons if he ever obtains them. But an attack to prevent this, says an Administration official, would be a "preventative war, not a pre-emptive one. It doesn't explain why you go to war this month as opposed to six months from...