LH:

Iraq is not just an excuse, I'm sorry. It is a pretty sorry excuse for war even as it stands, but there is a situation.   The question is how to resolve it. Saddam stands among his neighbors something like a mad dog in the corner of a kennel. I am sure the other dogs don't know what to do, and there is risk -- how great I am not sure -- that the whole area could be infected by his violent and dictatorial nature.

But our "risk management" approach really sucks.

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