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March 27, 2002
Machinations of US foreign policy
good but long article.notable excerpts.
Pakistan, which before September 11th clearly met the new test of national unacceptability (it both harbors terrorists and has weapons of mass destruction), will also require long-term attention, since the country is not wholly under the control of the government, as the murder of Daniel Pearl demonstrated, and even parts of the government, like the intelligence service, may not be entirely under the control of the President
..snip..
Several people I spoke with predicted that most, or even all, of the nations that loudly oppose an invasion of Iraq would privately cheer it on, if they felt certain that this time the Americans were really going to finish the job. One purpose of Vice-President Cheney's recent diplomatic tour of the region was to offer assurances on that matter, while gamely absorbing all the public criticism of an Iraq operation. In any event, the Administration appears to be committed to acting forcefully in advance of the world's approval
(I suppose this point means that the whole purpose of Cheney's going through the middle east and getting nos from all the mid-east rulers, was so that they could in public say no to the us attacking iraq, but privately cheer/help the US?)
The New Yorker Posted at March 27, 2002 01:37 PM
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