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To: marcos who wrote (3497)	1/17/2004 1:20:19 AM
From: SofaSpud	Read Replies (2) of 37332

...we are a sovereign nation and a distinct people, it is the duty of our leadership to think through foreign policy issues with purely canadian standards in mind ... I couldn't agree more. FWIW, I think Harper's spin on the thing was simply 'reaction'. The whig (I like that, BTW) stand was to try to do a sandbox thing and say "we don't like GWB and so we're against the invasion." Not much reasoning there, and frankly a disgrace to say that we'd let the U.N. set our foreign policy. A fair question to ask would be, if the U.S. wasn't hell bent for leather to overthrow S.H., would we have been willing to try it on our own? Obviously ridiculous. So then the question has to be framed, is it in our interest as a nation to help them? The debate never got that far. In fairness, K.M. tried to make the point that the fight against terrorism is the important thing, and how do we allocate our remarkably limited resources to assist in that fight, and went on to say that joining in Iraq wasn't the appropriate allocation of those resources. Fair debating point. Too much politics, too little thought.

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