An interesting Op-ed by Thomas Friedman on our current foreign policy-by-biology. Certainly it's more humane than the policy-by-assination employed by Kissinger, but he makes good points that the leaders he cites can continue to act as they are without true consequence as we sit and wait for them to die. Also, as the Russian Revolution found out with the change from Lenin to Stalin, you can never be sure about a leader's successor, he may just be worse than the guy before him. Apparently Saddam's sons are far worse than he is having been brought up under his regime and feeling the sense of entitlement towards leading the country.
- posted by levinson @ 7/10/2001 08:21:00 AM