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To: SiouxPal who wrote (47111)	11/4/2005 8:28:59 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Read Replies (2) of 362380

More Brillance from a grade A Blow jockey.. Hankaroo T Kissinger warns against early retreat from Iraq Nov 4, 2:56 PM ET Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger warned against the "catastrophic consequences of a debacle" in Iraq and any rushed withdrawal of US forces. "To argue that a collapse of the US in Iraq would not have consequences is simply living in a dream world," Kissinger told a meeting of NATO top brass including US General James Jones and Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer. "American abdication in Iraq will have global consequences if a fundamentalist radical state were to emerge in Baghdad." Kissinger, who supported the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, called on European countries to overcome their differences and coordinate efforts to bring stability to the country. "We need to recognize that a catastrophic outcome in Iraq would affect all the members in this room ... and other states," he said. "Disagreement cannot become its own end." He defended the US military doctrine of pre-emptive strikes against perceived threats but said it should not be defined along purely US national interests. "It cannot be in America's interest to define pre-emption in purely national terms," he said, warning that with the spread of weapons of mass destruction the notion of deterrence would lose its "traditional meaning". The 82-year-old elder statesman urged NATO ambassadors to discuss "categories of problems in which pre-emption is conceivable" and to "develop some common concepts for the right of self-defence". Kissinger was national security advisor under president Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973, and was secretary of state from 1973 to 1977. He is also an author of several books on diplomacy and international relations. He is seen as the architect of the detente between the former Soviet Union and the United States 30 years ago, but is regarded as a "war criminal" by some for his support of the bombing of Laos and Cambodia during the Vietnam War.

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