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To: craig crawford who wrote (134858)	11/16/2001 5:53:59 PM
From: Kevin Podsiadlik	Read Replies (5) of 164684

if we are going to go injecting ourselves into civil wars that are not our concern shouldn't we attempt to save a million people rather than a few thousand? "A few thousand" sounds like you're trying to trivialize Kosovo. I freely admit I'm no foreign policy expert but surely there had to be other factors than just the raw populations involved. But again, what's the difference to you? Isn't your stance that we shouldn't bother evaluating which case is a better use of our resources, and either take them all on (if we can), or ignore them all? Meanwhile, on the home front: perhaps it's wiser to make a clear distinction between republicans and democrats while standing firm on what you believe in. if by doing this you lose to the democrats and they run the whole show then when things don't work out they will be the only ones to blame and a clear distinction will present itself. I know, I know, it's tempting thinking, especially after getting an earful of that $#%@& Mike Bloomberg. The problem is that the strategy so rarely seems to work out in practice. All kinds of people said Gore should have been allowed to steal last year's election so he would get blamed for the bad economy. But then he would have gotten credit for our country's strong response to 9/11, even if it were being done more despite him than anything else. The real problem with "losing to win", so to speak, is that you start to get comfortable with losing, and when you eventually do win, you don't know how to handle it. That's a big part of why the Gingrich coalition fell apart so quickly and Clinton wound up getting a second term.

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