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Article: Let's Not Panic About Saddam Hussein
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- The Washington Post
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- December 8, 1997
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I disagree with the two main points in Robert Satloff's Dec. 2
op-ed piece "Target Saddam Hussein":
(1) That Arab opposition to Israeli undermining of the peace
process does not significantly impede Arab cooperation against
Saddam Hussein's Iraq, and (2) that "if the administration decided
to pursue a new policy using all available political, military,
economic and clandestine means to compel Saddam's compliance or his
demise -- whichever came first -- most Arab leaders would fall in
and do their part."
As to the first point, it is just fact that the Arabs are
deeply resentful about the Binyamin Netanyahu government's failure
to move forward in the peace process. This has created a ...