“WE DON’T NEED A WAR ...” source and date unknown
Although the Bush administration maintains that war is necessary, there is a better option. Today, Iraq is weakened, its pursuit of nuclear weapons has been frustrated, and any regional ambitions it may once have cherished have been thwarted. We should perpetuate this state of affairs by maintaining vigilant containment, a policy the rest of the world regards as preferable and effective. Saddam Hussein needs to remain in his box — but we don’t need a war to keep him there.
By John J. Mearsheimer, professor of political science at the University of Chicago, and Stephen M. Walt, academic dean of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.