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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (138876)	7/5/2004 7:01:38 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) of 281500

I thought you didn't support the war anymore I have tried to think about how I would have reacted to arguments in favor of the war against Iraq in the absence of assurances that Saddam had stockpiles of conventional WMD ready to go, and was close to developing stockpiles of nuclear weapons, and it was foolish to wait until he deployed them, in what historians call a "counterfactual," a sort of alternative universe in which the facts were different. You know, like, would the US have entered WWII eventually even if the Japanese never attacked Pearl Harbor? Hard to do. A lot of what I think about things is pretty conventional, based on arguments presented by other people. I used to like the argument about the United States not being the policeman of the world. I also liked the argument about not intervening in other countries absent a compelling self-interest. I still think those are pretty good arguments. If the US decides to start intervening in other countries because the government is too vile to be endured, even in the absence of compelling self-interest, I'd like to acquaint myself with the arguments both pro and con before I make up my mind.

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