He said it would be "comforting" if the United States and the Soviet Union set aside cold-war considerations and lined up on the issue.
There are plausible explanations for why Mr Hussein did not use his WMD during the war: political considerations, the pace of the American advance, and so on.
"The indications are from history that when Americans are in the middle of a war, domestic considerations don't play that much of a role in elections," Mr. Bell said.
Our invasion of Panama, for example, was not disguised in Cold War security considerations; more than anything else, it suggested the pique of bully whose flunky had turned on him.
Although neither army was adequately prepared at this early stage of the war, political considerations and popular pressures caused the Federal government to order General Irvin McDowell to advance southwest of Washington to Bull Run in a move against Richmond, Virginia.
In its campaign to liberate Raqqa from Daesh, all international norms of war and considerations of proportionality were abandoned.
In the Low Countries, wars, political considerations, and the rivalry between the Dutch and Belgian ports handicapped canal building.
In form his work must have been ill-balanced; he almost ignored the First Punic War in consideration of Naevius and became more detailed as he added books about his own times.
Le Monde France is committed to staying the course in Afghanistan even though public opposition to the war and electoral considerations have weighed heavily on Nicolas Sarkozy.
Those who still believe that we lost the war because political considerations forced the Army to fight with one hand tied behind its back need to read this book.
