SHOWING ANOTHER SIDE:

Saddam: What a fiasco (WILLIAM SHAWCROSS, 12/07/02. The Sun)

If Blix is to be seen to be serious he must order much more aggressive inspections. Then the Iraqis will suddenly become much less co-operative.

And that will trigger and justify Anglo-American action.

Of all the converts to the side of the West and of liberty, the most notorious of whom is probably Christopher Hitchens, the most fascinating may be Mr. Shawcross. Long known for his books, like Sideshow, scourging American intervention in the world, he seems to have been fundamentally transformed by his own reporting and writing on humanitarian crises, like those in Rwanda and the Balkans, and to have come around to the view that only military might--and only American and British might at that--can truly be counted on to defend the defenseless. Posted by Orrin Judd at December 7, 2002 7:18 AM