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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (23669)	12/27/2004 9:41:17 AM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (1) of 90947

And the ME fanatics seemed to be getting the impression we were soft, easy targets who wouldn't shoot back. I think they are thoroughly cured of that delusion now. If so, this has been well worth it. I don't think that a country will allow the likes of OBL to operate on its soil again knowing the consequences. Laz, the ME fanatics never had that impression. They know that if they presented a target that we would hit them. That's why they use terrorism and guerilla tactics in fighting the huge US war machine. Carter was between a rock and a hard place with the hostages. Any action risked the very lives of the hostages at stake. So the negotiations drug on. Many folks think that Reagan's hawkish attitude simply scared the Iranians into giving up the hostages, but there were other motivating factors as well, like the threat of war with Iraq and Iran-Contra arms deals...lots of double dealing behind the scenes. Clinton as a man has no credibility. However many can separate the man from his politics. His politics do have wide appeal, even among the southerners and republicans. America loves a moderate and Clinton's politics lie near the center. Bush on the otherhand has his politics pushing to the right. This dismays many Americans. Bush has used fear to his advantage. Americans rarely change commanders in the middle of a war, even if it's a war they do not support or fully understand. But neither man wholly represents his party, no more than Carter or Reagan or Nixon did. So your question about the support of a political party based on the actions of a single member is not really a question that needs to be asked. Party politics will always be the sum of the parts, and no one part or person ever has total influence. A political party is simply the gathering of many with common goals. Those goals are apt to change with time. Affiliation comes sometimes by giving up one ideal for another. Rove has mastered the reading of the body politic in America using issues to divide the country and therefore to find the the parts of the fissured body politic which can be crumbled into the republican basket. Orca

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