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America’s Soft Side
Prosperity and ease. Remembering Rodney. Kerry security. Luddite stems. Plus: Presidential silence. And much more.
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BLIXED MESSAGE
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Re: Marina Malenic’s
Duelfer and
the Dullards
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“Hans Blix, the chief U.N. inspector from 2000 to 2003, said the [Duelfer] report indicates that ‘international inspection is another means of war without fighting,’ adding that Hussein would have been contained had his inspectors been allowed to remain in Iraq.”
Marina Malenic puts her finger on the real agenda of Hans Blix — to maintain the well-funded bureaucracy he belonged to into the indefinite future. But he doesn’t believe in opposing force with force — ever.
What did the inspectors do when Hussein threw them out for four years? Fight a “war,” or just say “Oh, well” and move on?
And what about atrocities, genocide or civil war within a country — like Iraq or Darfor in Sudan, or Rwanda…
“Contain them,” says Blix.
What about a mad North Korean regime that throws out the inspectors and gets nuclear weapons ready to use?
“Contain them,” says Blix.
p>Typical of a citizen of a marginal, pacifist country which has to be protected by the really serious nations…. br> —
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