"double-dip appeasement"

A lesson the West could not ignore
September 12, 2006
After September 11, taking Saddam Hussein at his word was far too great a risk, writes Gerard Henderson.
"The evidence suggests that bin Laden's immediate motive for attacking the US homeland turned on his opposition to the presence of Western military forces in Muslim lands. It is sometimes forgotten by Bush's many critics that US and other Western forces were invited into Saudi Arabia to drive Saddam's forces out of Kuwait following Iraq's invasion of that country in 1990. Many who opposed George Bush snr's decision, which was sanctioned by the UN, to liberate Kuwait were later indifferent to the threat of weapons of mass destruction - even after September 11. It was a case of double-dip appeasement."