Iraq could cost US its leadership: BrzezinskiWASHINGTON: The United States should give UN inspectors more time, link Iraqi disarmament to the Israeli Palestinian conflict and avoid engaging its allies in tit-for-tat polemics, former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote yesterday in The Washington Post. To avoid risking its global leadership the United States should avoid “demeaning and destructive” polemics with its important allies,” wrote Brzezinski, who served in the Carter administration in the 1970’s. How and when to apply force to Iraq, he wrote, “should be part of a larger strategy, sensitive to the risk that the termination of Saddam...