Is E.J. Dionne smoking crack?
"Of course the world would be better off without Saddam Hussein. As of last fall, Powell was winning broad support for tougher action carried out in a way that would have strengthened the United States by strengthening our ties with allies. Someday France will regret undercutting Powell, because he was the last, best hope for making this a genuinely cooperative venture. Its leaders may not think so, but France would have been better off inside the anti-Hussein alliance."
What has transpired since 1441? Saddam hasn't disarmed and the UN isn't willing to inforce the resolution. Everyone seems to have forgotten the reason why Saddam has allowed the current regime of inspections: He is surrounded by US troops! According to appeaser's thinking, we should park our troops in the deserts of the middle east for years so long as Saddam continues to allow inpectors to play their little game of hide and go seek. Mr. Dionne's idea of "coopertive venture": the U.S. bears the burden, the axis of weasel continues to profit from trade with Iraq. Great cooperation, eh?
Winning broad support for a resolution that will never be enforced isn't a victory Mr. Dionne. A "cooperative venture" of hide and go seek with a homicidal dictator isn't progress.
AI
