The Washington Post, December 15th, 1999
WHILE THE Clinton administration celebrates potential peace between Syria and Israel, a rather scarier threat to regional stability becomes increasingly alarming. Iraq's dictator, Saddam Hussein, is successfully staving off attempts at the United Nations to reinstate weapons inspectors in his country. One year ago, President Clinton himself summed up the likely consequences of allowing Mr. Hussein to go uninspected for too long. "Mark my words, he will develop weapons of mass destruction, he will deploy them and he will use them." The U.N. efforts are floundering mainly because of Russia. The ...
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