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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (148886)	10/25/2004 11:28:21 AM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) of 281500

It's a bunch of moral preening. Make yourself feel superior while helping nobody and hindering the only people with any realistic chance of doing good. Nadine, you forget the warm fuzzy feeling one gets by engaging in moral preening. Very satisfying, very metropolitan, very sophisticated. Moral preening is an exercise in fantasy. The most "moral" President of the 20th century, Jimmy Carter, was an utter disaster in the foreign policy arena, and not ony because of Iran. You might recall that he and Brezinski invented the idea of using Islamic radicals as surrogates against the Soviets in Afghanistan. The current Jihadist movement is based on this "moral" President's error. I hanker for the good ol' days of realpolitik, when nations only had interests and damned few morals. Things seemed to work a lot better then.

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