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Source: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/030127/opinion/27edit.htm
Midnight for Baghdad
(U.S. News) - Mortimer B. Zuckerman Iraq is located in the midst of a region that has been a hotbed of global terrorism, including Shiite Islamists, personified by their ruling mullahs in Iran; Sunni Islamists of al Qaeda, funded primarily by Saudi Arabia; and Baathists from Iraq. They all have America in their gun sights. They would all be inspired if Saddam is allowed to flout the UN resolutions and erode America's credibility. They would all be less constrained if Saddam could get away with his deception. We must live with the fact that we are the No. 1 target in the world because we are the No. 1 country. We cannot be put in a position of having our security decided by the U.N. Security Council, some of whose members merely vote to serve their own national commercial interests, while others just blindly hope for the best.