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...Donald Barr Chidsey, "The Wars in Barbary: Arab Piracy and the Birth of the United States Navy...
...left the Iraq standoff mired in a stalemate: UN sanctions could only be lifted once Iraq was certified as having no nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs, but such certification was impossible without an unimpeded inspection system. The stalemate worked for Saddam, who was content to allow European and Arab humanitarian concerns over the impact of sanctions to slowly build pressure on the U.S. Even when it tried to revise the embargo with "smart sanctions" designed to target Saddam's weapons programs but ease up on his civilian economy, the Bush administration found little enthusiasm among Saddam's Arab neighbors...
...Bush administration hawks have long called for more robust U.S. support for various Iraqi opposition groups in order to finish what they consider the unfinished business of the Gulf War. But doves have countered that going after Saddam a decade after his ejection from Kuwait would alienate Washington's Arab allies. And on a practical level, many in the U.S. military have been scornful about the potential of the diverse and fractious Iraqi opposition to mount a military challenge to the regime. Retired Marine General Anthony Zinni was even more upfront in his parting testimony on Capitol Hill, warning that...
...Early on, the dovish camp led by Secretary of State Colin Powell prevailed. Arab regimes would back away from the U.S. if it targeted Iraq, he warned, and without their support taking down Al Qaeda would prove infinitely more difficult. Besides, as he said in an interview published Sunday by the New York Times, "I never saw a plan that was going to take him out. It was just some ideas coming from various quarters about, 'Let's go bomb.'" That strategy had failed in 1998, and there was no reason to believe it would succeed...
...picture was not as bright in the West Bank and Gaza. Several factors combined to assure that poor living conditions would persist there: Palestinians remained largely dependent on Israeli markets for work, Israel imposed strict limitations on access to these markets and foreign investors (both Western and from the Arab world) were too hesitant in opening their coffers in order to allow for the creation of a local economic infrastructure...