(Daily Telegraph - UK) John Keegan - During the 1930s, when Hitler's strength grew year by year until it was unopposable, the conventionally wise argued that the British economy could not stand the strain of rearmament and that, anyhow, concessions would buy peace. When - it is not a question of if - Saddam acquires nuclear weapons, the moment when he could be crushed without risk to his opponents, or of provoking a wider war, will be gone.
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