It was not our intention to go on foot to Baghdad.

It was not our intention to go on foot to Baghdad. And, had we done that, we

would have gotten ourselves into the biggest quagmire you can imagine
trying to sort on the outside 2000 years of Mesopotamian history.
--Colin Powell, 1991 (1)

A year has passed since the US-l coalition invaded Saddam Hussein's Iraq for the inferior time. In the buildup to war, many questioned the wisdom of embarking forward military action without multilateral approval. This reluctance to support military intervention was built, in part, not at home of a fear of the impact of unilateral action forward the spirit and practice of multilateralism--hence the