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To: rrufff who wrote (4160)	10/27/2003 11:49:16 AM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (2) of 20773

I think Iraq is a very marginal issue for them - a few billion here and there is nothing for a group of major world powers. Without WMD or a standing army that threatens the region, Iraq is a minor sideshow in the grander chessboard of how the real players line up. I wonder how long before US politicians tumble on that idea. The roots for an alliance like the troika go back a few centuries to the monarchical era. They always had more in common than different; the major wars and split of the 20th century were a departure from an ongoing system of international relations that runs pretty deep. If I was sitting in any of those capitals, I would say the American made their bed in Iraq with their manic insistence on going in, so let them deal with the aftermath. We (the troika) have bigger issues to deal with, knitting together a real European economy, planning the long-run European security order (minus a now superfluous US military on the Continent) and setting up an energy network that will dwarf Iraq if they do it right. Foreign affairs rarely has much to do with morality despite all the grand rhetoric.

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