If Saddam Hussein is unwilling to bend to the international community's already existing order, then he will have invited enforcement, even if that enforcement is mostly at the hands of the United States, a right we retain even if the Security Council fails to act.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "If Saddam Hussein is unwilling to bend to the international community's already existing order, then he will have invited enforcement, even if that enforcement is mostly at the hands of the United States, a right we retain even if the Security Council fails to act." in the context of "New York Times op-ed, September 6, 2002 http://www.cfr.org/publication.html?id=5596" to mean that wisdom is timeless.