The postponement of military action because of the approaching summer in the Middle East is a minor inconvenience by contrast with the scale of the harm that could be inflicted. To therefore impose artificial time limits, such as a week, makes a nonsense of any argument based on morality. There can be no moral justification for the scale of human suffering that could be inflicted on Iraq simply because it would be inconvenient to postpone military action until the weather changes after the summer. As long as our moral code is so corrupted and undermined that we leave that out of the equation, we are in severe danger of compromising what this country used to stand for in international affairs.