03-14-2004, 12:58 AM
I'm interested in your thoughts on this. Suppose we take Bush, Gore, Clinton or whoever out of the picture, along with the events of 9/11. What should we have done about Saddam after the first Gulf war ended, and he continued to show that the U.N. was impotent?
Sure, the U.N. was in effect the police, and we were vigilantes, but what do you do when you have the power to solve a problem, and the police either return "stolen goods" and give him a slap on the hand, or just sit around letting it (Saddam exploiting/murdering his own people) continue to happen?
Sanctions have been proven repeatedly to do nothing but hurt the people of the country they are opposed upon, and Saddam had no interest in reforming, so what other options could we have had to deal with him other than removing him or ignoring him?
Sure, the U.N. was in effect the police, and we were vigilantes, but what do you do when you have the power to solve a problem, and the police either return "stolen goods" and give him a slap on the hand, or just sit around letting it (Saddam exploiting/murdering his own people) continue to happen?
Sanctions have been proven repeatedly to do nothing but hurt the people of the country they are opposed upon, and Saddam had no interest in reforming, so what other options could we have had to deal with him other than removing him or ignoring him?