Replies to post #14105 on Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[Tom K]

I still don't see the big take-away from this story. Could we have been clearer? I suppose so. I suppose we could have said "invade Kuwait and we'll kick your ass" (I don't know what the diplomatic translation would be).

Given Saddam's defiance to our pre-Gulf2 threats, I don't know if it would have mattered. Saddam is the master of mis-calculation. I hope we capture the guy so our psychotherapist can determine if he suffers from some sort mental deficiency. What sort of person is unable to recognize obvious and severely negative consequences of their own actions?