[lbo-talk] game theorizing the new brinkmanship

andie nachgeborenen andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com
Mon May 12 09:59:14 PDT 2003


washingtonpost.com No Weapons, No Matter. We Called Saddam's Bluff By Michael Schrage Sunday, May 11, 2003; Page B02

But suppose Hussein was bluffing. Suppose Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction of any significance. That shouldn't matter at all. To the contrary, why should the international community respect totalitarian brinkmanship based on a bluff? A brutal despot who bets his regime on a bluff deserves to lose everything.

* * * Michael Schrage is a senior adviser to the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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So the lesson for brutal despots, learned by Kim Jong Il, is, don't bluff. Gets real WMD! jks

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