Following Iraq’s decision to allow an unconditional return of United Nations weapons inspectors to that country, a rational person might have acknowledged that such a humiliating capitulation represented at least the slightest indication of progress toward satisfying U.S. demands. The White House, however, immediately dismissed the offer, declaring: "This is not a matter of inspections." Not one inch was conceded — not that this was a welcome step forward, not that it could be the beginning of a peaceful resolution to the crisis, nothing. For reasons that Jude Wanniski and other observers have pointed out, alleged "weapons of mass destruction" … Continue reading George the Hun