| 1998-02-06 | Proposed US attack on Iraq: Three Security Council members disa There is one element that the US appears to have forgotten.
Attempts like these, with the horrendous impact on the people, does
not bring about an internal revolution. Rather, they would support
their government against the foreigner. I believe that was the basis
on which the United States won its independence from its current
junior partner in this current rattling of sabres. Elsewhere in the
Middle East, there is much quiet anger at having to unsettle an Arab
government. For, whether Washington or the Arab capitals or both
like it or not, the one area of comfort from the Arab point of view
is the Iraqi defiance. President Saddam Hussein understands that
better than President Clinton does of his allies. The issue has
broken out of the narrow confines of biological weapons: it has now
to do with Arab prestige and whether the Arab countries should
continue to be run roughshod by any world power whose leader believes
that sabre rattling against it would improve his stature in the
opinion polls. Since that is not accepted in Washington, there is
yet more of the crisis to unravel over Baghdad.
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