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"Yama" wrote:

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"Emmanuel Gustin" wrote:
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).

Actually, Libyans began reconcilation with West after 1993, when UN
sanctions ruined shaky Libyan economy. That culminated to turning over
Lockerbie suspects in 1999. USA has kept the sanctions in effect.

....and *nothing* else has happened. Years and years of sanctions, and
they gave up a couple of guys (one of whom is in a "prison" better than
the place most people call home).

On the other hand, one little invasion of a country a thousand miles
away, and Libya gives up their WMD programs. And not to "the
international community," but to Britain and the US.

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