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...answer, paradoxically, seems to be yes on all three counts. U.S. officials are concerned that Saddam may have found in Iran, against which Iraq fought a bloody eight-year war, an ally to help him punch a hole in the embargo. Nonetheless, they think, and diplomats in Baghdad agree, that Iraq may soon propose a new negotiated solution -- though on terms the U.S. would find highly unacceptable...
...surface, a noose was tightening around Saddam's neck last week. The U.N. Security Council prepared a resolution, scheduled to be passed this week, extending the embargo to all passenger and cargo flights in and out of Iraq. The move is unlikely to have much practical effect; only a few supplies from Libya, Yemen, North Korea and Vietnam are thought to be reaching Baghdad by air. But it is one more sign of worldwide solidarity against Saddam's aggression...
...concerned that he will get Iran's help to break the embargo, and even believes he could win a war. But he might try a (probably unacceptable) compromise offer first. -- As Iraqis loot Kuwait, a finger-pointing debate starts on whether -- and who in -- Washington might have given an unintentional wink and nod. -- Gorbachev asks for the power to decree economic reform, but who cares? Power is passing to the republics anyway. -- History is likely to remember General Jaruzelski more fondly than do his Polish countrymen...
...been less than flawless. But it will be completed shortly, and a decision to wage war will probably follow. Most if not all of the serious diplomacy of recent weeks has concerned preparedness, not peace. And the latest from the mullahs in Tehran supports the view that the economic embargo, if it could ever squeeze Saddam sufficiently to cause his unilateral withdrawal from Kuwait, would take well over a year to do so -- a period too long to sustain the support of the world's anti-Iraq coalition...
...staying power is the least of it. As pessimism about the embargo's long- term effectiveness leads logically to battle, so the Administration's goal of crippling the worst of Saddam's war-fighting capacity appears unattainable without resort to force. The President has danced around this objective for weeks, but the evidence grows that merely restoring the status quo ante will not yield "security and stability" in the gulf, one of Bush's publicly stated goals. As he told Congress last week, America wants "to curb the proliferation of chemical, biological, ballistic-missile and, above all, nuclear technologies...