> Containment means Saddam will stay in power with much higher > probability than with war. That makes containment pro-Saddam, if you > use my probability of remaining in power definition, which I think is > a reasonable one. This is independent of whether containment is the > better cost/benefit choice for the US, which is a different subject.
By that logic, would containment of the Soviet Union during the Cold War be pro-Soviet?
By that logic, yes.
Jeroen "Make love, not war" van Baardwijk
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