Postwar Plans for the Gulf
Having read all the psychiatric analyses of Saddam Hussein, culminating in the interview with Ghazi al Gosaibi (Opinion, Feb. 24), I disagree and maintain that Hussein is an intelligent and clear-thinking person. The thing that did him in was the failure of the idiots in Washington to do what they were supposed to do: accept a cease-fire and engage in prolonged Korea-style and Vietnam-style negotiations until Hussein’s army recovered and the American people demanded an end to the incompetently led war.
The trouble with idiots is that they are unpredictable. I remember being told by a shell-shocked priest after the Battle of the Bulge that the Germans could beat any organized army, but they couldn’t beat ours.
Now that we have “won,” are we going to lose the peace as usual by keeping an army in Iraq for 40 years as we have in Korea?
V.B. KNIGHT, South Laguna
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