Posted by Dan Ewert : 10/08/2002 12:19:00 AM (Archive Link)
Concerning the ongoing negotiations for readmitting inspectors to Iraq, the Iraqi regime constantly claims that this or that will violate their national sovereignty. Does anybody else find this term, “sovereignty,” unpalatable? Iraq shouldn’t have any sovereignty. They were defeated in a war and likely will be defeated again soon. It’s just one more example of how the Persian Gulf War was poorly executed at the end. A war that is correctly pursued doesn’t leave a sovereign state in the immediate aftermath. It leaves a conquered, temporarily occupied country that is then rebuilt. Generals of history past would be appalled that we stood at the gates of the enemy capital with an overwhelming force, but then yawned and walked away, leaving the chief perpetrator of the war still in power. Sovereignty… does Iraq have it? Yes. Should it? No.