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To: Liatris Spicata who wrote (9423)	10/26/1999 11:46:00 AM
From: shadowman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9980

Larry, Agree....back (way) when I was in college we used to use the term "Aztec two step" to refer to someone who had a knack for speaking out of both sides of their mouth or took stands that seemed particularly contradictory. I guess the "Texas two step" might apply here? To be fair...in american politics the cover your ass approach to almost everything seems to prevail., so even though the Bush's aren't my faves, they don't seem that unique to me :( To confuse the situation a little more...too tough...too easy....too partisan ?????? The following. AP story: Ex-CIA Head Says US Appeases China -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A.P. INDEXES: TOP STORIES \| NEWS \| SPORTS \| BUSINESS \| TECHNOLOGY \| ENTERTAINMENT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Filed at 10:51 a.m. EDT By The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former CIA Director R. James Woolsey today accused the Clinton administration of pursuing a policy of appeasement toward China and likened it to the way Britain and France dealt with Nazi Germany on Czechoslovakia before World War II. ``It is wrong-headed and dangerous,' Woolsey said as a House committee prepared to hold a hearing on legislation that would authorize the sale of conventional submarines, a theater missile defense and other military assistance to Taiwan. Woolsey, central intelligence director for President Clinton in 1993-1994, said the administration policy is a potentially tragic attempt at ``strategic ambiguity' like the failed effort by Britain and France to discourage Hitler from seizing Czechoslovakia. ``The executive branch needs to be forced to change its shortsighted policy,' Woolsey said in backing the legislation at a seminar at the Nixon Center, a private research group. Woolsey said Clinton's declaration of a ``strategic relationship' with China, his adoption of a one-China approach on the dispute between Beijing and Taipei and repeated U.S. apologies for NATO's mistaken bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade in May have encouraged hard-line factions in Beijing. Appeasement is ``a proper word to describe the administration's stand,' Woolsey said. A former deputy, Robert Suettinger, said he also was troubled by Clinton's declaration of a ``strategic relationship' with China, which could imply some form of military alliance. But he said ``to accuse the administration of appeasement is to substitute rhetoric for reality.' Suettinger opposed the legislation, saying foreign policy should be left to the executive branch and that the bill encroaches on that constitutional authority.