Yesterday evening, President Bush reached into history for comparisons, calling Saddam Hussein a "student of Stalin". But the threat from Stalin's USSR --- incomparably greater than that posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq --- not only could be, but actually was, defeated without any direct military confrontation. In that case, peaceful methods worked, while military action would have been a disaster.
With that in mind, it is disturbing to see how much stress the administration puts on potential risks of nonmilitary action, and how little, if at all, it addresses the risks of war.
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