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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (14787)	10/5/1999 2:41:00 AM
From: MNI	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

Mr. Hennessey, nationalism is NOT natural instinct. Natural instincts to be bound in a family, to feel secure, to limit ourselves against some 'outside' are abused by nationalism. This is an artificial act of culture, that may lend its effects to beneficient trends or to malevolently induced catastrophic overturns, depending on context. 'Exclude' Haider's party from coalition sounds as if they were taking something from him that was his legal possesion. Truth is his party has never been in there, and there is no a priori right for him to go in, as long as he hasn't 51 per cent of the ballot behind him. Truth is the conservative party of Austria (that is OeVP) is (if somewhat reluctantly) willing to make the coalition with Haider's FPOe, if his party is stronger than them, which will be decided only in the last days of this week. That is in my view a strange criterion, as SPOe is strongest party anyway ... It is in the power of the Austrian president to crack such coalition, and it might happen to be more probable than the 'exclusion' by the conservatives you assumed. CharleyMane, you are in a presidential campaigning mode already, lending yourself to pervasive stretching and bending of the truth, and therefore my natural instinct is to avoid any talk with you. But for the moment I will refrain from shunning you and rather give you two other hints: As a conservative I think it would be not clever of the OeVP to go together with FPOe, rather let SPOe do the job together with Haider. He said he is willing to go with SPOe also; it would be more useful for the conservative democratic project. Joseph Fischer, German foreign minister has declared his resolve to collect an intragovernmental majority for sending German troops to Eastern Timor. So, if ever you get German help in your project, you will have to thank it to a Green pacifist liberal and remarried reform catholic. As a conservative I oppose lending our (conscripted) troops to a project of PR for the already most popular politician of this country. Stick to the truth, MNI.