Journal redfiche's Journal: The Hawk's view (and mine) 2
Good article at MSNBC by William Saletan of Slate. He writes about the fallacy of calling war the last resort when dealing with someone who has historically only responded to force.
Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're guessing.
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Some people are willing to comply with the police out of respect for what the police represent, that is, the need of a representative government to maintain a degree of order. Others are only willing to comply under threat of force. Saddam is clearly one of the latter group.
But law must be blind. It doesn't matter whether you are arrested peacefully or violently, you must be given the same due process. The reason behind this due process is also the reason behind the hoops we jump through for Saddam. It also gives our troops time to get ready, and it gives the United Nations one more chance to pretend that they're worth something. It also gives Saddam more time to get ready, but that's somewhat unavoidable.
War will be the last resort... hopefully because, once we're done with the fighting, no more 'resort' will be necessary. Kinda like how you always find your keys in the last place you look for them.
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