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Even that may be tricky. John Hillen, a military scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, says NATO's actions "need to add up to some sort of sustainable end state"--something he believes is lacking. "They're counting on everything falling into place here," says Hillen, a former Army officer who served in the Gulf War. "Even if they prevail, the best result is a 10-to-12-year peacekeeping mission, serving between two parties whose ambitions are totally unrequited...
...Hillen likes to quote an old professor of his. "The United States should recall historian Sir Michael Howard's three rules for intervening in civil wars," he says. "First, do not. Second, if you do, pick a side. Third, pick the side that will win and make sure that it does." Flaunting those rules, NATO began to see last week, could become costly...
...more ambitious scheme--such as sending the U.S. Army on a search-and-destroy-Saddam mission--is politically and militarily foolish. Gulf War Army veteran John Hillen, a military strategist with the Council on Foreign Relations, believes such a campaign would be feasible only if Saddam did something really stupid, such as another lunge into Kuwait or a spectacular act of terrorism against U.S. citizens...
...Hillen estimates that it would take as many as 340,000 U.S. troops six months to assemble and then invade and take over Iraq. They'd be there for as long as five years as a post-Saddam government got on its feet. Final cost: more than $50 billion and at least 1,000 dead Americans. And one more thing: while this huge undertaking might remove Saddam from power, there's no guarantee that he wouldn't survive and become a vengeful and fugitive Muslim hero...
Perhaps the biggest problem is the bottom line. Most customers' bill-paying needs simply do not justify the monthly fees. The average U.S. consumer writes a dozen checks a month. For his $8 monthly fee, BankAmerica Customer Peter Hillen has been making an average of five computer payments. "Eight dollars is clearly too much," says Hillen. "If I stop and think about it, it makes...