Popmartijn
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Hello,
Yesterday, the UN and Iraq striked a deal about the weapons inspections. More news about this you find find here in the Boston Globe , the International Herald Tribune and I think many other newspapers. Great, you'd think, the possibility of war has waned a bit. Well, I think it's unfortunately not the case. Both the IHT as the Boston Globe report that now the USA is rejecting the deal and will probably block "the very inspections which they had been calling for." (from BBC News ).
Sorry?
I mean, weapons inspections can continue again and now the USA wants to block that? Iraq has agreed to all the conditions as set in previous UN resolutions (thus not breaking them). OK, this does mean that some actions/inspections are not permitted (unannounced visits to the 8 presidential palaces), but it's still better than nothing. With the deal that has been agreed upon inspectors will return to Iraq in 2 weeks or so. Should the USA block it and start pushing for its own resolution, inspections can be set back maybe indefinately, should other countries of the Security Council even consider to support yet another resolution.
IMHO, the USA should support these inspections for this moment. While there are some limitations to it (said unannounced visits to presidential palaces) there can be done a lot by the inspections team before they reach those limitations. It is therefore better to support the agreement now and try to get stricter resolutions later, when the inspections team has already inspected most (or all) they can and should inspect. It does not have to be all or nothing (as I think the chance of a nothing is quite high), but you can also reach it one step at a time.
Marty
Yesterday, the UN and Iraq striked a deal about the weapons inspections. More news about this you find find here in the Boston Globe , the International Herald Tribune and I think many other newspapers. Great, you'd think, the possibility of war has waned a bit. Well, I think it's unfortunately not the case. Both the IHT as the Boston Globe report that now the USA is rejecting the deal and will probably block "the very inspections which they had been calling for." (from BBC News ).
Sorry?
I mean, weapons inspections can continue again and now the USA wants to block that? Iraq has agreed to all the conditions as set in previous UN resolutions (thus not breaking them). OK, this does mean that some actions/inspections are not permitted (unannounced visits to the 8 presidential palaces), but it's still better than nothing. With the deal that has been agreed upon inspectors will return to Iraq in 2 weeks or so. Should the USA block it and start pushing for its own resolution, inspections can be set back maybe indefinately, should other countries of the Security Council even consider to support yet another resolution.
IMHO, the USA should support these inspections for this moment. While there are some limitations to it (said unannounced visits to presidential palaces) there can be done a lot by the inspections team before they reach those limitations. It is therefore better to support the agreement now and try to get stricter resolutions later, when the inspections team has already inspected most (or all) they can and should inspect. It does not have to be all or nothing (as I think the chance of a nothing is quite high), but you can also reach it one step at a time.
Marty