Word: mandelbaums
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...support for war while minimizing the loss of allied life. Some believe maintaining multinational solidarity requires an ultimatum to Saddam: Cave in by such and such a date, or we come at you with everything we've got. Sounds good, but . . . "The problem with a clear warning," says Michael Mandelbaum, a Johns Hopkins University foreign policy professor, "is that it could cause Iraq to strike pre-emptively, and pre-emption is a card we may want to play ourselves. For Saddam this is World War III. He wins or he dies. If he thinks it's coming, why wouldn...