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To: JohnM who wrote (84140)	3/20/2003 10:31:24 AM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (4) of 281500

Terrible, just terrible, foreign policy advice. The French and the Germans are our allies with which we have a serious policy disagreement but with which we have profound agreements on a host of other issues. To reify the Iraq disagreements into basic premises of foreign policy is only to make a bad moment much worse. It would be terrible foreign policy if they applied payback across the board, but I doubt that will be the case. Germany's pacifism, Canada's moderation, Mexico's hesitance etc.....are all understandable, it is France's over the top work against the US that is truly objectionable. Do you really believe that the totality of their actions was based on a principaled stand? Perhaps a part, but much of it was power politics....and for that, some price must be paid. Nadine said it much better than I could.... that whatever calculus enabled the French to believe they could set themselves up to thwart and obstruct actions that we believed were essential for our national security without paying any price - well, that calculus has got to go. Slacker

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