[lbo-talk] Split Shrubs.....

[Mike Ballard]

Here's an excerpt from George H.W. Bush and Brent
Scowcroft, A World Transformed (1998), pp. 489-90: 
"Trying to eliminate Saddam, extending the ground war
into an occupation of Iraq, would have violated our
guideline about not changing objectives in
midstream, engaging in "mission creep," and would have
incurred incalculable human and political costs.
Apprehending him was probably impossible. We had
been unable to find Noriega in Panama, which we knew
intimately. We would have been forced to occupy
Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq. The coalition
would instantly have collapsed, the Arabs deserting it
in anger and other allies pulling out as well. Under
those circumstances, there was no viable "exit
strategy" we could see, violating another of our
principles. Furthermore, we had been self-consciously
trying to set a pattern for handling aggression in the
post-Cold War world. Going in and occupying Iraq,
thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations'
mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of
international response to aggression that we
hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route,
the United States could conceivably still be an
occupying power in a bitterly hostile land. It would
have been a dramatically different--and perhaps
barren--outcome."

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