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To: stockman_scott who wrote (39266)	8/21/2002 3:14:55 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Has Bush Been Mouse-Trapped Into War? By Patrick J. Buchanan It is still passingly strange to find myself agreeing with a Buchanan column. Speaking about Bush's advisers: They did not consider – or do not understand – the power of words spoken by the leader of a superpower. Saddam can bluster about "the mother of all battles" and American soldiers bringing their coffins with them to Iraq. But when the president speaks, the world listens, and when he threatens war in the aftermath of 9-11, the world concludes that war is coming. Now it will take great courage for the president to concede he was rash in committing us to war, and more courage to back away from war, for the rage and frustration he will engender in the War Party and its unforgiving ally, the Israeli lobby, will be immense. I've just started reading Joseph Nye's book. In his introduction, he makes the point that foreign policy previously divided into isolationists and internationalists. Now the internationalists are divided into the multilateralists and the unilateralists. Pretty introductory level stuff, but a helpful distinction. Buchanan is clearly a consistent isolationist.

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