I don’t often write about politics because mine are wooly at best and extending to wacky. But I have a question that maybe you can help me think through.
Bush issued a 48 hour “get out of Iraq or else” ultimatum to Saddam Hussein today. Bush must think that Hussein’s not going to leave because Hussein’s repeatedly said he’s not going to be exiled. So it’s a pretty sure thing that this ulimatum will be ignored.
But what if Hussein, his family and his ministers and generals did go? Then what?
Where would they go? Set up a government in exile in the mountains of Afganistan, maybe? Team up with the other members of the “Axis of Evil” in a remote, hidden headquarters?
What would they do? Gather followers? Build some weapons?Wage a guerrilla war? Form a terrorist cell? (guerrilla vs. terrorst vs. freedom fighter is a blurry line)
Does anyone think that by accepting exile, Hussein’s core philosophies and tactics are going to change? It’s not like he’s going go to Elba and wither away or find a happy like on Niijima, the exiles’ island south of Tokyo.