…I just talked to: “The good news is that Baghdad isn’t really suited for urban warfare. It’s wide open. It has huge great triumphial boulevards of a totalitarian sort. You cld land airplanes on those things. It’s not the traditional Arab town–nothing like, say, Jenin. But a siege of Baghdad would be horrible, not because of what would happen there, but the international reaction that would build against us. Saddam wants the peace party of the West to save him. If the thing drags on much beyond the end of April it might become hard to hold together.”