John
I was responding to your point comparing SA to Iraq. You're right, SA had the will to disarm and SH did not. But we knew that- or we should have known that. Right now we are like a parent who tells a small child "don't draw with crayon on the wall" then does nothing for a month as the child draws everywhere, then severely punishes the child for the dreadful mess it has made. All the child's fault, of course- we said not to, and look at the shocking mess it made. Give it a hiding it will never, ever forget.
regards
JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1