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Article: Scenarios for making the world safe: Middle East futures.(OPINION)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- March 12, 2003
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Byline: Joseph S. Nye
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. -- Picture this: After a lightning-short campaign with few civilian casualties, Saddam Hussein is removed from power and the crowds in Baghdad cheer US and allied troops. A multinational force preserves the peace. A UN administrator reorganizes the Iraqi government and monitors elections. Within a few years, only a handful of American troops remain. In Iran, democratic forces take heart from the change next door. Syria adjusts to the new reality. Even Saudi Arabia establishes an elected advisory council. After difficult negotiations, a peaceful and democratic Palestinian state is created, and terrorism in the Islamic world ...