"the ready resort to extreme force "

After 12 years, and how many Kurds and Kuwaiti killed, you claim that demanding Saddam comply with the cease-fire terms or face the consequences as a "ready resort to extreme force "???



IMHO, MY chosen course of action did not, despite your double-jointed logic, result in "wanton violence, death, and mayhem." The invasion was handled in a reasonable way, in spite of the failures of some allies to allow staging. The POST-INVASION control I have stated was handled less than effectively.

I do not consider the INVASION to be either wanton OR unwarranted.

But then, you insist that I agree with your opinion on everything, I have to presume.