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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: tekboy who wrote (18900)2/15/2002 8:50:33 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
New FA articles...

Thanks for the links, tek. I've read the first two and have some thoughts.

The first, Pollack, I read last night as a result of the Weisberg link to it. I was impressed with the care, with the detail of the argument and how little of it I could actually judge. However, when he takes it to the question of invasion, I think it's a different matter. The issue I failed to see him address in that article is that of American public opinion. I don't see it ready for an invasion of Iraq with the attendant casualties, the lack of clear linkages to 9-11, and the difficult task of doing so without some sort of coalition.

Thus, if you follow Pollack's logic to its end, I think you wind up unable to do anything.

As for the Gause piece on Martin Kramer's book, that's something we should have had long ago. It's the kind of balanced discussion of the issues that needs to be done. Someone should recommend reading Gause on these topics, not Kramer. My conclusion from that is the reason for all the anomalies Gause finds is that Kramer is either avenging personal attacks on his friends or is ideologically driven. It's hard to imagine anything else accounting for it.

Now on to energy dominance.

John (irresponsible one liner response person that I am)
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