No choice but war? (Comment).(US-Iraq relations)(Editorial)

I SHOULD BE AMONG THE SUPPORTERS of an invasion of Iraq. A decade ago, after Iraq seized Kuwait, I agreed with the decision to go to war and wrote in The New Republic, at the start of the conflict, that allied forces should go all the way to Baghdad. My view was that Saddam Hussein had forfeited the legitimacy of his regime, and, having resolved not to let his aggression stand, we ought to deny him any chance for revenge. When the first President Bush called off our attack, I was bitterly disappointed.

Eleven years later, I have no doubt that Saddam is a menace, but the ...

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