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Libya: Victory for Bush doctrine, or diplomacy?
Greg — (archived)

When the US and Britain announced over the weekend that long-time rogue nation Libya had decided "to verifiably abandon weapons of mass destruction," the race was on to take credit for coaxing Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi to take the path less traveled. On the one side: neoconservatives and other supporters of the Bush doctrine – the preemptive strike philosophy that says might makes others do right. On the other side: advocates of diplomacy. They argue that it was talk, not tanks, that convinced Qaddafi to play ball, the result not of the Iraq war, but of a dialogue that had been happening for almost ten years.

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