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Non-Tech : The ENRON Scandal

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To: Mephisto who wrote (3649)3/25/2002 9:57:13 PM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (4) of 5185
 
Mephisto,

Re: Bush should never have threatened those countries with his Axis of Evil speech. His threats paint us as aggressors.

It's just a reversion to his pinhead arrogance and unilateralism. Bully boy tactics at their worst. Dreadful stuff in the eyes of the rest of the world.

Here's some salient and newish URLs to the Foreign Affairs Mag. They tend to see Bush as being out of step.

foreignaffairs.org

<Snip> Yet six months into this new era, governments from western Europe
to the Middle East to East Asia are wondering how much has really
changed. Members of the U.S.-led war on terror are beginning to
chafe at Washington's apparent disregard for allied interests, and
U.S. talk of a "crusade" against "evil-doers" is reviving old
accusations of superpower arrogance. <Continues....>

foreignaffairs.org

<Snip>
President Bush's inclusion of North Korea in the "axis of evil" caused
much bewilderment at home and abroad. This is due in part to how
little is known about the so-called "hermit regime." Yet the skeptical
reaction also reflects a widespread unwillingness to ascribe to North
Korea the same level of threat that many Americans have associated
with post-revolution Iran and Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
<Continues.......>
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