Pipes says bluntly.
We could move into Saudi bases, use weapons big and small, and extirpate this foul regime. Dr Pipes is convinced the American public would support a mass mobilisation of ground forces on the scale necessary to crush Saddam only if it was satisfied the world was on the cusp of a crisis. He acknowledges a sense of urgency does not exist at present. There is a very real danger that once something starts, the support will not be there. Pipes, who has served in both the State and Defence Departments, concedes readily that the US is sometimes its own worst enemy.