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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (93600)	4/16/2003 12:14:23 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Another thought… If we play it right, we may be able to sell the idea of a "neutral" regime. That is a regime that is neither pro-Islamism nor anti-Islamism, neither pro-Israel nor anti-Israel, neither pro-US nor anti-US. In a region where everyone is highly in the "anti" camp, neutrality is a good compromise and can lead to friendliness in the future. The temptation will be too great however to back whoever tells us whatever we want to hear. This is a reasonable idea, but one difficult to square up with the “with us or against us” mentality. We will at some point have to choose between our desire to “back whoever tells us whatever we want to hear” and our commitment to democracy in Iraq.

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