History Revs Its Engine
Recent revelations about Iraq’s inventory of chemical and biological weapons, combined with what was already known about the nature of the Iraqi regime, stirred in prudent people thoughts retrospective and anticipatory. One thought was of the gratitude owed to the Israeli government that decided, and the pilots who enforced the decision, to destroy the Baghdad reactor that served Iraq’s nuclear weapons program. That occurred in 1981. The world would have a different look and feel today if the Iraq that invaded Kuwait (and menaced Saudi Arabia) in 1990 had possessed nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles to deliver them....