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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (68840)	1/26/2003 10:32:08 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (3) of 281500

Thinking About Iraq (II) By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN As you might guess, I thought these issues were as important to consider as the first. However, the move between the next to last paragraph and the last one is the entire game to me. What does Tom Friedman think are the conditions under which war, given his previous columns, would be the "the only option?" Things could be better, but here is where we are — so here is where I am: My gut tells me we should continue the troop buildup, continue the inspections and do everything we can for as long as we can to produce either a coup or the sort of evidence that will give us the broadest coalition possible, so we can do the best nation-building job possible. But if war turns out to be the only option, then war it will have to be — because I believe that our kids will have a better chance of growing up in a safer world if we help put Iraq on a more progressive path and stimulate some real change in an Arab world that is badly in need of reform. Such a war would indeed be a shock to this region, but, if we do it right, there is a decent chance that it would be shock therapy.

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