Word: iraq
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...Iran to decide what it should have. An understanding between the Arabs and Iran is in the interest of regional security. We saw the outcome of the Iran-Iraq war: big losses to Iran, Iraq and the gulf states. The Arabs and the Iranians can make effective security arrangements that would weaken or remove the prospects of war. That will bring about a balance of power, and in that event, no harm will be done to the people in the region, or to the interests...
...Iraq part of this power equation...
That's the problem with lame ducks. Though Congress will probably treat him like a pariah, Bush can still do plenty on his own. (Do the words "Iraq" and "Iran" ring any bells?) With our faces turned to Little Rock, Bush could sabotage things for the president to come...
...best this kind of arrangement can function much like the U.N. coalition against Iraq did, with individual nations uniting to cut off the aggressor and forcing the return of captured land. Unlike the gulf coalition, however, real collective security will work even when there is no oil in sight--it works to cut off aggression early, before it can grow into a wider conflict...
DIPLOMACY: The Lessons of Iraq...