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...Bush's error: it's a mistake to be nice to bullies...
CREDIT: From a telephone poll of 891 likely voters taken for TIME/CNN on Oct. 20-22 by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman. Sampling error is plus or minus...
CREDIT: From a telephone poll of 1,653 American adults taken for TIME/CNN on Oct. 20-22 by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman. Sampling error is plus or minus...
Prudence or Pandering? It is clear that Saddam expected to get away with seizing Kuwait and that Washington was startled by his decision to embark on this wild course. Both miscalculations were serious failures of U.S. policy: it was a tactical error not to lay down Day-Glo markers around Kuwait and a strategic one to misread Saddam's expansionist goals...
Bush's basic error was to leave his prewar Iraq policy on autopilot. The Administration had a big investment in its belief that Saddam -- whom Bush called "worse than Hitler" after the invasion -- could be cajoled into better behavior. So the U.S. pulled its diplomatic punches in a way that not only seems like appeasement in retrospect but also struck some as such at the time. If the U.S. had few tools to influence Saddam's prewar behavior, as Bush aides now acknowledge, then perhaps little would have been lost had they just written Iraq off, but Bush...