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"Emmanuel Gustin" wrote:

"John Keeney" wrote in message
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Is this the beginning of the useful changes in the middle east that
some suggested would follow the "more active" approach taken
in dealing with terrorist states?

An alternative interpretation is that it shows that a regime
of sanctions, negotiation, and inspection can work. After
all it worked for Iraq, so why shouldn't it work for Lybia?

Because it never did, until March of this year (when the negotiations
with Libya started - what a coincidence that happened right as we were
dismantling Iraq's military).

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