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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Sajjad who wrote (87884)3/30/2003 4:10:11 AM
From: jttmab  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
As a stated policy, America wants to be the liberator.

It's a difficult "sell" if your stated policy is something different.....Off war parallel....This Administration has a stated policy of promoting free trade. If you look over what we have actually done over the last two years...the anti-free trade list is a lot longer than the free trade list, e.g., steel tariffs hardly are not free trade initiatives.

Allied forces role is very defined, for a short period of time. ... US forces do not intend to occupy the area for an indefinite period of time.

I missed that one...How long is that short period of time? The Administration response to that question has been...We don't know, it's a short time....my comment on that is: if you don't know, then how could you possibly know it's a "short time"? Everyone wants it to be short, but what is short. You may recall that we can afford a "small deficit". Vague terms like small and short are ideal. Everyone wants them, even though we don't know what they specifically mean. Even if you believed that the occupation would be 3, 5, or 10 years would you actually say that?

This is and has been the world of politics. You say what people want to hear. People will believe, you just need to know what they want to hear.

jttmab
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