Blix' Trix

Tony Blankley on Hans Blix:

When, during World War II, we learned that Hitler was working on the atomic bomb, we assumed the worst and spent as much as it took and worked as fast as we could around the clock to get the bomb first. That sense of urgency reflected in the Manhattan Project is the only rational pace at which we should be moving on all fronts today. But even our good and determined president is finding his pace slowed down by the quagmire in which he finds himself; not the quagmire of battle (our soldiers fly on the wings of Mercury with the weapons of Mars at the throats of our enemies), but the quagmire of diplomacy.
Even the New York Times reports that, of course, we can't expect Hans Blix and the weapons inspectors to actually find the weapons. But they may find evidence of Saddam's breach of U.N. resolutions. Meanwhile, Mr. Blix says he doesn't want to confront Saddam or search aggressively (what he calls an American trait). He admits that it is very hard for him and his team even to assemble and bring into action 35 Jeeps and 100 inspectors. He is bemused. He is patient. He knows his limits. What's a 74-year-old Swedish diplomat to do? More importantly, what's Mr. Bush to do?

Stick to his guns, that's what. Hold Hussein to the letter of the demands, and not an iota less, no matter how the interational nattering set phumpher and garfle.

Posted by Mitch at November 27, 2002 01:25 PM