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To: Neocon who wrote (88730)	4/1/2003 11:26:26 AM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) of 281500

I have two answers for you: First, we had no right to do so. It is their country and their lives. And they lived much closer to Eastern Europe than we so it stands to reason they must have had a closer perspective on the situation. So if in spite of that they still want to go ahead, it is the life. US has no right to "protect" them. Secondly, you are forgetting that we did not have much experience with "eastern europe" right after ww2. We just wanted to have our own control. Protecting liberty had nothing to do with it. What is more, you are forgetting the Turkish "bila dig, bila choghondar" principle (one necessitates the other). The more one side plays dirty, so will the other side. Now I am not saying that I prefer the soviet method over the American one. Nor am I saying I wish Europe had been a socialist continent (albeit a democratic one). What I am saying is that there is no reason to believe Europeans would have gone for the military dictatorship option. In fact, neither did most of Eastern Europe. They were simply captured by Russia. And Russia was in no position to wage war in Europe. ST

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