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This is of small comfort to Laurie Garrett ("Countering Terrorism")
or William
J.
Perry ("Prevention, Deterrence, Defense"); and even less
so to Richard Butler, armed with firsthand experience (in his U.N. days)
with Saddam Hussein's biological weapons program. Butler forcefully
argues (in "Germ Wars") that not just the use but even the manufacture
and possession of chemical and biological weapons should be consid–
cred "without qualification ... crimes against humanity." Moreover, "if
the international community were to agree" on this-to be sure, a big
"if"-"then enforcemcnt action could be taken immediately to remove
the offending facilities or laboratories involved."
Butler's "envoi" predictably serves as a sharp slap in the reader's face:
suddenly, we are once again back in the real world of difficult political
decisions. Whatever Saddam's actual role (direct or indirect) in
9/1
I,
can anyone honestly pretend that he does not pose a real and constant
danger to the United States and its allies in the region? How can there
be a "war on terrorism" that does not include Iraq? How can there even
be any fruitful debate-over means and ends in such a war-that inten–
tionally disregards the passionate arguments aired, day in and day out
in the U.S. media, by spokesmen for the so-called hawks (Paul Wol–
fowitz
&
Co.) and doves (Colin Powell and friends)? It is too bad that
the editors of this volume essentially chose to bypass this explosive sub–
ject-though perhaps wisely, in order to keep the collection from
spilling over into the five-hundred-page range. Still, there is a small sec–
tion that deals with a number of related subjects.
General Wesley K. Clark, fresh from his (not altogether happy)
Yugoslav experiences, discusses briefly "What's Next for the U.S. Armed
rorces"-but without benefit of
post facto
knowledge of the successful
conclusion of the anti-Taliban campaign. He argues that "the war against
terrorism is not a war that can be won from the skies; it will require
troops on the ground in many different roles," including "forward recon–
naissance clements" and "special teams of commando forces."
Michael Mandelbaum is very much in his element in a short but
arresting essay on "Diplomacy in Wartime." The title of the piece may
in fact be somewhat misleading: for he is less concerned with "new pri–
orities and alignments" in U.S. foreign policy and far more preoccupied
with possible, indeed (for him) desirable, regime changes in states with
a long record of sponsoring terrorism. Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, the Pales–
tinian Authority, and Afghanistan are all mentioned by name. "Regime
change seems ... an unavoidable aim of the war aga in st terrorism," he
writes, adding: "In no case is the task of dislodging these regimes an
overwhelming one." But Mandelbaum stops short of advocating
