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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (40915)	8/30/2002 11:53:02 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) of 281500

The way to begin this long campaign for democracy, argues Heisbourg, is to make human rights an issue in every meeting the United States and European nations have with each Arab state. That's the kind of slow and steady pressure that produced the Sakharovs and Sharanskys who transformed the Soviet Union. Terrific advice. I agree with Ignatius on this one. That's why it's crucial that U.S. strategy be rooted in fundamental values, rather than short-term interests. In regard to his opening comments about liberals and conservatives switching positions, this is one of the most remarkable of those switches. It harks back to the much derided, unjustly so, foreign policy of Jimmy Carter. Particularly because the values called upon are those of human rights, precisely Carter's point. Were it to happen, that the Bush administration moved in this direction, it would mark a watershed moment. But I find it unlikely because I don't see either the oil industry mentality or the neocon mentality that appears to dominate it moving in that direction. Too bad.

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