John Kerry  In London on Monday, Secretary of State John Kerry,
asked how Syrian President Bashar Assad could avoid a U.S.-led a
military strike, said, "Turn over every single bit of his
chemical weapons to the international community, in the next
week -- turn it over, all of it." (Alastair Grant / Associated
Press / September 9, 2013)  Secretary of State John F. Kerry was
probably right when he said "it can't be done," referring to
getting Syria, in a week's time, to surrender control of its
chemical weapons. But timelines aside, compelling a Middle
Eastern state through threat of military action to hand over
weapons of mass destruction not only can be done, it has been
done.  The success happened in Iraq, not a place where the word
"success" is often applied, particularly in a U.S. foreign
policy context. It happened after the 1991 Persian Gulf War when
a combination of sanctions, military pressure and United Nations
inspections forced Saddam Hussein to give up his WMD.  For
political as well as practical r