You'll inspect our weapons when you pry them out of the cold, dead hands of our terrorized conscripts...
Lord knows, he's preaching to the choir, but Andrew Sullivan "gets it," as he might put it:
One lesson of the ferocity of the Saddamite resistance is surely this: who now could possibly, conceivably believe that this brutal police state would ever, ever have voluntarily disarmed? Would a regime that is forcing conscripts to fight at gun-point have caved to the terrifying figure of Hans Blix, supported by the even more intimidating vision of Dominique de Villepin? I'd say that one clear lesson of the first week is that war was and is the only mechanism that could have effectively disarmed Saddam. If true disarmament was your goal, it seems to me that the inspections regime has been revealed, however well-intentioned, as hopelessly unsuited to staring down a vicious totalitarian system.Posted by Dr. Frank at March 28, 2003 06:50 AM | TrackBack