Alternatives to a War

Saddam Hussein is an imperialist, guilty of invading both Iran and Kuwait at separate times. He is a madman who has used chemical weapons to commit genocide on his own people; a man who wrested control of his nation through elaborate deception and outright assassinations of political opponents. He is also a man that has been compared with Adolf Hitler himself, who was similarly imperialistic and guilty of a similar genocide on a larger scale. However, war is not the way to stop this man, history has shown that his patterns of aggression can have been prevented with a policy of containment, not a costly war.
When Iraq invaded Iran in 1980 is was not without provocation. Iran’s government had conducted repeated border raids, had tried to assassinate Iraqi officials, and had tried to overthrow Hussein’s regime. Saddam did not carelessly attack Iran without considering the outcome of such a war. Internationally, Iran was viewed by the world as a country with a weak military force...