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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (247014)	10/30/2007 5:31:08 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (2) of 281500

"Today Ahmedinijad is saying some nutso stuff about restoring Iran's greatness in the world," Can you point to a leader in the world who has no desire or rhetoric about seeing his constituencies rise to greatness? "Once again, the sophisticates of London and New York dismiss it as rhetoric. But what if it isn't? We have the ability to monitor developments, military buildups, political alliances and strategems, diplomatic coercions, economic developments, etc. These are the things we can and should watch in a measured and predictive manner and react to in a responsible and accountable fashion. " Can we afford not to consider the possibility?" No. Neither can we afford to react to unmanifest and fear based what ifs? For the moment, time is on our side and we have wonderful tools of communication and diplomacy that were not available in the 1930s. We also have a tremendous resource called human decency, founded upon the ideas of 'Peace on Earth' and 'Goodwill toward all' that isn't new, is unlimited in potential, and oft passed over in consideration of the more sexy and convenient 'nuke em all' fear based options.

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