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To: Cary Salsberg who wrote (68390)	3/10/2003 3:26:29 PM
From: Sam Citron	Read Replies (1) of 70976

Cary, I do not disagree with your assessment of the noble role that the US played during WWII and its immediate aftermath. But now that the US is the sole surviving superpower, with unsurpassed military supremacy, which some say is equal to the strength of the next twenty nations combined, we are obsessed with threats of a different kind -- asymmetric warfare from rogue nations or stateless organizations. It is as if we have just awoken from a dream of unimagined peace, prosperity, and power to suddenly find ourselves vulnerable in ways we had never imagined. And the reaction of this administration is to expend an enormous amount of political and economic capital to try to overturn a single rather insignificant domino, and in so doing is being seen by the world for the first time since the Vietnam War as the Big Bully. We are in the process of undermining much of the prestige and goodwill we have created over the past 60 years. Although I owe much to this great nation and the ideals for which it stands, I sincerely believe we have taken a turn on the wrong path, and if we do not soon turn back, we risk invalidating those same ideals. Sam

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