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Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Nov 4 09:58:33 PST 2002


Bradford DeLong wrote:


>Saddam Hussein has been effectively "contained" for the past
>decade--deterrence and "containment" do seem to work almost all the
>time, after all. But I don't like what "containment" does to the
>people of Iraq at all. And I am scared of what Saddam Hussein might
>do--I mean, launching two aggressive wars against neighbors is not
>confidence building, is it?

Well, the first war was launched with the approval of the U.S., and the second with some ambiguous (at the very least) signs from April Glaspie. So things have changed a bit now, haven't they?

Doug



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