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To: michael97123 who wrote (78854)	3/1/2003 9:33:21 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Michael, I worry about the other side as much as about the side you type about. And that's if Bush goes ahead in the present mode (there are a good many different modes still available), a great deal of the glue which holds international institutions comes apart. We might well head down a very, very dark path then. The lack of public support is not simply a small thing to be without; it's close to the entire ballgame. If, for instance, Friedman is correct, and almost everywhere he goes folk are not eager for this war; and we enter a journey of costs which we haven't been told about; of an occupation that's not been publicly discussed; of a plan for democracy that's not been formulated; and a global public opinion that's opposed. Ouch. It's going to be a very, very tough period for all of us. Go or not go. I read some of Jonathan Schell's latest essay in Harper's over the weekend. It's a portion of a book that will be published sometime this spring. He compares today to 1914 with the loss of international institutions and the descent into collective misery. I'm not that apocalyptic by a long shot, but I do have those thoughts now, on occasion.

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