What is "proponents"

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Other proponents of deterrence base their assessments on misreadings of Iraqi history.

While these proponents of deterrence recognize that containment cannot be sustained for much longer in its current form and that reviving it is not a realistic prospect, they are even less sanguine about any of the various regime change options.

First, and for many proponents of the policy, foremost, deterrence removes the need to embark upon a policy of regime change--all of the variants of which entail significant costs and risks.

Some proponents of deterrence theory see in the notion that Saddam is not suicidal sufficient reassurance by itself.

In truth, this is not a fair comparison because the Iraqi armed forces in 1991 were more than two hundred times as large as the Taliban in 2001, so any military effort against Iraq would invariably have been much bigger and more costly, but proponents of the Afghan Approach still argue that the absence of large U.

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN AFGHANISTAN Since the proponents of the Afghan Approach base their argument principally on the success of this strategy in Afghanistan, it is important to understand why Operation Enduring Freedom was so successful.

Although the proponents of the Afghan Approach take it on faith that a regime change effort led by Iraqi opposition forces themselves would produce an outpouring of support, making the entire process easy, the opposite may actually be true--a regime change effort based largely on opposition forces could cause the Sunni center to rally around Saddam Hussein and make it harder to bring down the regime.

Turkey A number of proponents of attacking Iraq argue that the entire operation could be run out of Turkey.

Reason would appropriate even its own worst critics, take them up and hide them in itself, and thus ensure that even the newly rising proponents of Gaia would harbor the flatland ontology that is still destroying Gaia to this day.

Among the star civilizations, he said, there were many religions and many proponents of every conceivable viewpoint.

Its proponents maintained that it was the key to opening the solar system to exploration and development.

The Bush administration and the Saudis helped to restore the emir of Kuwait, whose government immediately resumed its harassment of proponents of democracy and launched a campaign of repression against and expulsion of the Palestinians living there.