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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SecularBull who wrote (90708)	11/27/2000 7:10:33 PM
From: Cola Can	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769669

Yes, Arafat is no dummy. Too bad Clinton didn't realize that before he destabilized Israel. Everyone has known Arafat was a murderer and terrorists for 30 years. Clinton welcomes that scum into the country like a long lost brother. A criminal will love a criminal. Yet, Clinton calls Milosevic a criminal and bombs a soverign country. An unprovoked attack even. That is like Hitler and Saddam being best buddies, then one decides to attack Stalin, because he thinks he is evil. Hypocrisy in action that took the lives of many inncocent people. Clinton killed the people he claimed to be protecting. Talk about crimes against humanity. Clinton is guilty.

To: SecularBull who wrote (90708)	11/27/2000 10:35:21 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769669

That is true too, but I was specifically thinking of the strategic exploitation of the ideological tensions and geopolitical rivalries of the Soviet Union and China. Detente was contingent upon triangulation, insofar as we were balancing our relationships with two great powers that had their own problematic relationship. The threat of an entente between China and the United States motivated the Soviet Union to seek to revise its own relationship with the United States. Detente between the Soviet Union and the United States, despite their greater position of strategic face- off in Europe, motivated China to continue its own thaw, lest relaxed tension in Europe enable the Soviet Union to engage in greater Asian adventurism and attempts at border revision, or even an increase in Asian influence at the expense of China. Although none of this was conceivable without Kissinger, Kissinger credits Nixon with grasping the geopolitical realities and being a serious player in foreign policy......