February 17, 2003

Interesting: It is unlikely that

Interesting:

It is unlikely that the war in Iraq will consist only of a land invasion. Rather, teams of special forces will be used to seize and secure strategic positions, such as the oilfields and the dams on the Tigris and Euphrates, so that they can be protected from any attempt to blow them up. If this can be done quickly, there may well be no civilian casualties at all: the regime may simply implode, leaving Saddam to the fate of Ceaucescu - a dictator barking orders that no one obeys. Saddam is known to be highly conscious of that possibility. According to defectors he keeps a tape of the toppling and execution of Ceaucescu and watches it regularly.

This strategy has been described many times of course; but I'd never heard the factlet about Ceaucescu.

Posted by Dr. Frank at February 17, 2003 07:55 AM | TrackBack