[ggekko]

Ping.

Geostrategy has never been Camille's strong suit. She always showed her best and most surpirsing talents in analyzing the psyches of world leaders.

What Camille doesn't seem to grasp is that Saddam is following a assymetric warfare strategy in which his objective is to acquire WMDs the goal of which is to make him immune from Great Power attack. Having achieved his first goal Saddam would then be free to pursue a strategy of regional domination and thereby become the reincarnation of King Nebuchadnezzar (which his view of himself) .

Britain and France could have stopped Hitler at little cost when, in contravention of the Versailles treay, he annexed Austria. But they waited and dithered and hoped for more International consensus. Eventually the cost to Britain and France became immense.

We do not need to follow their example.

[The Great Satan]

What Camille doesn't seem to grasp is that Saddam is following a assymetric warfare strategy in which his objective is to acquire WMDs the goal of which is to make him immune from Great Power attack.

And what everybody else fails to grasp is that he has already achieved this goal.