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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (13945)	8/6/1999 6:59:00 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 17770

Very interesting....I have heard Rice speak, and she is very sharp. It would also be a milestone if she were to become Secretary of State, since she is African-American. As I have elsewhere indicated, I think that humanitarian considerations should weigh in when a plausible case can be made for intervention on strategic grounds, as a scale- tipper, rather than being the principal rationale.....

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (13945)	8/6/1999 7:41:00 AM
From: MNI	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

C.Rice, Gustave's favourite politician ... excerpt from the end of a speech in L.A., 6 Aug 1998 (a year back): I was talking at one point to a senior leader in Asia, now retired, who said to me, "Do you know why the United States is always going to lead?" I said, "No," and he said, "If you're a young software engineer in India, you'd like to get to Germany, Japan or the United States, those are your choices. And Germany and Japan can't tolerate difference." The fact that the United States is a place where wherever you come from, and whatever that first part of that hyphen in your name, you still have rights of citizenship. We have not permitted ethnicity and territory and citizenship to be linked in that horrible witches brew, in a way that, I think, Europe will do it to itself again. That, perhaps is our strongest card. To the degree that states emulate that, to the degree that states emulate free elections, and free press, and so on, but emulate most importantly the value that we place on difference, our belief that while we have different pasts, we have an importantly common future. That, I think, is a values lesson that America, and perhaps America alone, can deliver. And it is one that, I think, many people around the world are ready to hear. To my own ears this is a little too patriotic. I think Europe, incl. Germany, have the potential to make the difference now. the link: wacsf.org