State Sponsored Persian Gulf Conflict

These two chapters further the authorÆs thesis that the first World Trade Center bombing was state sponsored, an outcome of the actions by Saddam Hussein and Iraq. In the first chapter, Question of State Sponsorship, the author provides convincing evidence that the first bombing was sponsored by Iraq. She does so by tracing the backgrounds of the two main actors in the bombing, Ramzi Yousef and Abdul Rahman Yasin. After a logical eliminate of the usual state suspects, the author concludes it ôleaves only two possibilities: Iran and Iraqö (Mylroie, 2001, 109). The chapter then makes a close study of the character of Saddam Hussein that is often misunderstood by the American mentality. His utter contempt for the United States and his brutal tactics pale only in comparison to his thirst for revenge, something he swore would be his after the first Gulf War.

In chapter ten, Bill Clinton, America, and Saddam Hussein, the author argues that wishy-washy United States policies under President Bush after the end of the first war and those furthered by President Clinton after taking office did much to position Saddam Hussein as someone who could virtually thumb his nose at the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM). Saddam resorted to a ôcheat and retreatö policy while Bush maintained a ôthreat and forgetö policy according to the author (Mylroie, 2001, 120). Over the next decade Saddam did everything in

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rteen, reveals the eventual removal of Butler from UNSCOM because of continued resistance on behalf of Russia, France, and China. Russia and France to this day have fought United States efforts to disarm Hussein. Hussein had so effectively won support from such nations that when Butler left UNSCOM it seemed to many as if he were the reason Iraq had not totally disarmed, a ludicrous notion. Butler spends the rest of this chapter reiterating the greatest threat, a threat that at the time of his writing this book had no direct supervision, the threat of weapons of mass destruction in the hands of a madman like Saddam Hussein. The final chapter, The Principle of the Exception, underscores the complex and difficult concept of nuclear weapons and coming to an international agreement with respect to reactions to their buildup and use. In so doing Butler reveals the basic history of how members of the United Nations were elected permanent members to help resolve such complexities. However, as much as Butler argues we need an agreed upon system for resolving conflicts and controlling those who would use force to violate the rights of others, we are still along way from international agreement on such a system. The GeneralÆs War (Chapt
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