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To: Neocon who wrote (141498)	7/26/2004 4:20:27 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) of 281500

>> I am certain that humanitarian concerns are often, if not always, paramount. Neo, you sound like a good person and are succeeding in moderating my opinion of some Neocons...but I have to say I am almost as certain that humanitarian concerns are often, if not always, at the very bottom of the decision process. Where were the humanitarian concerns when Saddam was gassing the Kurds? Where were they when he was firing 50-caliber bullets from gunships upon civilians? Have you actually read what the Contras were doing to people during Reagan? Yes, I am sure we would have prefered to have had a nice guy instead of Saddam fighting the Iranians or that the Contras were really freedom fighters with ethics, but in the final analysis, these concerns always take the second (or third or fourth) seat to the material and strategic concerns.

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