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A PROPER COURSE IN IRAQ

12:00 AM, Sep 16, 1996 • By AARON FRIEDBERG
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Having forgone the opportunity of doing so five and a half years ago, the United States and its allies will not now seek directly and forcibly to remove Saddam from power, and there is nothing in his long and bloodstained past to suggest that he can somehow be tamed or transformed. Saddam is like a shark; he needs to keep moving forward in order to survive. Through its actions of the past week, the United States has hardly dealt him a fatal blow, but it may have further restricted the waters in which he can swim.




Aaron Friedberg is associate professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University.

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