Word: embargoing
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...does it? Are there other interests that the United Nations has not yet articulated that the United States is bound to serve? Is the invasion so immediate a threat to American security that it cannot be allowed to wither slowly under the weight of international embargo? What rationale for attack might the U.S. advance...
...indeed one does. The international embargo, when truly supported by member nations, is the only weapon the United Nations should ever have to apply against a nation that is not actively engaged in a shooting war. The idea that the past four months of embargo had no effect is naive at best and deliberately misleading at worst. Even a completely secure operation could not expect to substantially undermine Iraq's ability to function so soon...
...after 12 months, 15 months, an embargo will indeed begin to "bite." If applied for long enough, the will of the Iraqis to resist will decline steadily, the chances of Hussein's overthrow will rise and the potential impact of a desperate Iraqi attack anywhere will be less and less. Withdrawal from Kuwait and submission to other terms--e.g. the dismantling of nuclear development projects--should follow with capitulation...
...officer, "will crumble soon after the first encounters." But Washington specialists do not believe it. Says Anthony Cordesman, a top congressional staff expert on the Middle East, who toured Iraqi military installations in 1989: "It will be a really long time -- I'm talking maybe a year -- before the embargo seriously affects Iraq's military capacity." Determining whether Saddam will pull out of Kuwait by then without fighting is problematic, and probably irrelevant; nobody expects the Bush Administration to wait that long...
...more than 20 years you were OPEC's chief strategist. You introduced the world to an oil embargo, to gas lines and stagflation. How do you view OPEC today, and what are the organization's prospects...