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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Win Smith who wrote (69220)1/27/2003 11:50:28 PM
From: tekboy  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
The Bush Administration has seemed to hurtle thoughtlessly toward this moment of truth, in a lather of righteous arrogance and dim-witted machismo. From the start of his Administration, the President has made clear his skepticism about diplomatic niceties. "We've scared the bejeezus out of the world," says Kenneth Pollack, a former CIA and National Security Council Middle East expert, whose book The Threatening Storm: The Case for War Against Iraq is often cited by the Administration's hawks. "We've left the impression that Iraq is, as Richard Perle has said, 'the first of many' American military campaigns. I'm still in favor of taking action. We've gone too far down the road. It's now or never." He paused and sighed. "But I don't feel very comfortable about that. We haven't prepared the ground diplomatically."

Bingo. That's basically exactly how I feel. It's funny, I was schmoozing with an Israeli official friend today, and I was saying something similar to what Pollack says above. I concluded my rant by saying, "it takes some pretty fancy footwork to go up against one of the nastiest thugs in the world and end up with everybody thinking you're the bad guy." My Israeli friend laughed, and said "Welcome to the club!"

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