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Diplomacy
is not just courtesy and correctness, but it is also trying to find a common denominator
to solve disputes without the loss of face
I'm optimistic because there is a realization that the military means has proven
very costly, both financially and in terms of lives lost
Unfortunately,
the intervention in Iraq has been a tragedy, a debacle, and has demonstrated to
the world the limits of military force. The strongest argument for doing anything
preemptively would have been if Iraq were moving in a nuclear direction. But there
was no infrastructure for it. We carried out 700 inspections in 500 different
locations, but nowhere did we find weapons of mass destruction.
