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Source: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/030310/opinion/10edit.htm
The High Price of Waiting
(U.S. News) - Mortimer B. Zuckerman Fear of war is not unreasonable. But the question, properly put, is whether the cost of action is greater than that of inaction. The answer is clear: Inaction will not cause the danger from Saddam's regime to diminish but to grow. Which is why it is time to implement UN Resolution 1441, authorizing military action against Iraq. As the German newspaper Die Welt put it, such action "would not be might over right but right over might."