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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: jlallen who wrote (29788)9/27/2001 9:07:49 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (2) of 82486
 
American interests are what concern me, in this case the American interest of internal security and safety of our citizens. I could not care less if anybody sees that as clumsy, selfish or whatever....

JLA, I agree with that. I haven't really heard any disagreement with that. When you hear what sounds like disagreement with that, it is, instead, debate about the best strategy to accomplish it. I don't think we should worry about clumsy or selfish if they are instrumental in success or irrelevant to the matter any more than women who win sports championships worry about whether their lipstick is on straight. We should apply ourselves to doing what's smart.

What underlies the apparent disagreement, the debate about strategy, is legitimate. Certainly a Pakistan, with its nuclear capability, being overtaken by their internal Taliban is not a good outcome. We may make a conscious choice to risk that if we have some game plan for taking over Pakistan or destroying its nuclear capability should we have to fall back to plan B. If we do, fine. But I think what underlies the apparent disagreement is a lack of confidence that we'll be any smarter this time than when we gave stinger missiles to what would become the Taliban. I don't think you can brush off such debate with a simple "screw them."

Karen
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