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...Sept. 12 speech to the United Nations, President Bush challenged that body to either come up with immediate decisive action on Saddam Hussein??s blatant, decade-long violations of previous U.N. resolutions or be deemed “irrelevant.” In light of what has transpired over the past week, it is clear that the lifelong diplomats assembled in New York have no idea of just how irrelevant they have already become...
...Monday Tariq Aziz, Hussein??s deputy prime minister, conveyed a letter to the U.N. declaring that Iraq would submit after all to the unconditional return of U.N. weapons inspectors, who have been barred since 1998. Although many of our jittery European and Arab allies pounced on that glimmer of hope, it is clear they are once again being misled—and that, as both Secretary of State Colin Powell and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld have said, they are being fooled by a Hussein “ploy.” Following Bush’s speech, world...
...with debate about Iraq at a boiling point, we face another such test. One need not rehearse here the case against Saddam Hussein??s murderous regime. It should be noted, however, that he has decided to play a shell game by offering the return of weapons inspectors while conveniently ignoring substantive demands (such as disarmament and the repatriation of prisoners of war). Every indication suggests that this tactic will accomplish the purpose for which Saddam deployed it: to split the UN Security Council and prevent decisive action against the Iraqi regime. The French and the Russians, stained...
Which leaves the United States. Whether the specter of nuclear-armed terrorists is sufficiently horrifying to justify military strikes against Hussein??s dictatorship is something we can debate. But once we have the answer, let’s not lose courage to do the right thing simply because no one else is willing...
...Bush deserves some of the credit. Many other members of his administration would have refused to consider such a gamble. Many of them were around a decade ago for the previous Bush administration’s war on Iraq and never actually stopped calling for the toppling of Hussein??s government. In time, perhaps, if the case is made and consensus is reached, Hussein will be deposed. Until then, the world must depend on the right combination of patience, pressure and open deliberations—the same democratic principles on which this nation was founded...