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Default Understanding risks and culture
On Fri, 05 Sep 2014 19:45:37 -0400, wrote:

So, what is the UN and those obligated to enforce the resolutions
supposed to do? Look the other way? Say, "Ok, Saddam, forget the
agreements ... do what you want."?


Yeah maybe. How did it work out when we deposed him?

Sometimes it is better to keep the devil you know than to uncork the
bottle and let the devil he was holding in there, out.

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The Saudis tried to tell us that before the invasion but no one
listened, mostly out of sheer arrrogance and lack of understanding.
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