WHAT IF

Saddam uses chemical weapons? I’ve been thinking about that for weeks. There’s no doubt that U.S. and U.K. forces will prevail against them. But what of American public opinion if such horrors occur? Will there be a wobble? My view is that it will only confirm the justice of this intervention and its timeliness. I also believe that Saddam, if he wants to wound the United States, could not do anything more destructive to the cause of our enemies. Americans will feel one thing if such an atrocity occurs: rage. And more than Saddam will feel the ultimate consequences of that anger. There’s nothing we can do about it now, of course, except pray. So I’m praying – for an overwhelming, swift and casualty-scarce victory; that the worst won’t happen; that we haven’t waited too long; that the young men and women defending us know deeply that we are all behind them. God bless and save them. I’m inspired by the words of a soldier captured by Mike Kelly in Kuwait right now: “A thousand things can happen to make life absolutely miserable for us. There is not one thing that can happen to stop us.”