Getting It Backward on Iraq Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • The Clinton administration supports crippling economic sanctions that punish the Iraqi people but seems ready to live with the demise of international inspections to monitor Saddam Hussein's nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons programs. Washington has it exactly backward. It should offer Baghdad a blunt trade: lightened sanctions in return for renewed, intrusive arms inspections. The sweeping sanctions regime does nothing to advance U.S. interests, undermine Saddam, or contain Iraq. Leaving Saddam's arsenal unwatched is folly. Better to have arms inspections without sanctions than sanctions without arms inspections.

published proceedings

  • FOREIGN AFFAIRS

author list (cited authors)

  • Gause, F. G.

citation count

  • 5

complete list of authors

  • Gause, F Gregory

publication date

  • January 1999

publisher