http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak...t-novak25.html
One military thinker, considered one of the Pentagon's best brains, put it this way: ''The risk of going through with this scares the [expletive] out of me. That's why a lot of us are rooting for Colin Powell to settle this somehow.''
The worst-case scenario would trigger a Middle East war, with the Arab world aligned against a nuclear-armed Israel.
Would an Iraq under attack repeat its 1991 missile launching against Israel? Would Israel retaliate, as it did not in 1991, perhaps this time with nuclear weapons? Would this lead to an area-wide war? Would it align the United States and Israel against the Arab world?