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Our Eyes Are Open. Now What?
What options does the U.S. have left?
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A few weeks before the war in iraq began three years ago, I checked
in with an Israeli friend, an intelligence expert who in 1991 had
uncannily laid out for me the course of the first Gulf War on the
night before it happened. "It'll be easier than 1991 this time," he
said. "A three- or four-week campaign. But I have a question: You're
not actually thinking of occupying that country, are you?" I asked if
he had an alternative. "You decapitate the government—Saddam, his
family and friends, the Special
Republican Guard—but leave...