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THE WAR THAT NOBODY TALKS ABOUT
In a front page story today, The Washington Post questions the continuing U.S. policy of aggression toward Iraq, saying it is characteristic of U.S. military missions in the post-Cold War era: It is small-scale, open-ended and largely ignored by the American people. Even though U.S. warplanes are routinely dropping bombs on a foreign country, it has not been an issue in the presidential campaign and has hardly been mentioned by the candidates. ( http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5823-2000Oct24.html )
The threat Saddam Hussein poses to U.S. security is overblown and our current policy of trying to overthrow Saddam is futile, writes David Isenberg in "Imperial Overreach: Washingtonís Dubious Strategy to Overthrow Saddam Hussein." ( http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-360es.html ) He recommends that general economic sanctions be replaced with a limited export control process that would restrict Iraqís ability to rearm.
Some observers support an agreement to remove sanctions in exchange for renewed weapons inspections while others have suggested committing to a "rollback" of Saddam's regime by more actively supporting the Iraqi opposition. Former U.N. Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter, Cato Adjunct Scholar David Isenberg, and Daniel Byman of RAND discussed the question, "What should the United States do about Saddam Hussein?" at a policy forum held at Cato this year. The event can be watched in streaming video on the Cato Web site. ( http://www.cato.org/realaudio/audiopages.html )
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