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To: tejek who wrote (133226)	2/21/2001 3:38:17 AM
From: hmaly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571405

Ted Re.I don't know...it would seem to me that it makes his upcoming trip to the Mideast just that much harder to finesse.<<<<<<<< Get real. If you are in a position of power, you don't have to finesse. And the arabs and the military respect power far more than we do. Colin wanted a show of force before the trip just for that reason. That was to me the best reason given on the Sunday morning talk shows. Most of the commentators agreed with the strategy. I see no reason to discount it. Newsweek in bold stated "The president, in office less than a month, strikes his father's old advisary. But a new era may require a fresh strategy." Later on in the article "But it wasn't clear whether Bush was testing Saddam or vice versa. For more than a month the Iraqis stepped up their fire at allied planes patrolling the no fly zones over northern and southern Iraq. They shot off more than a dozen missiles, as many as they launched in all of 2000. The military escalation was something new." That in a nutshell is what I said. Both sides wanted it. Colin wanted to reestablish the power and Saddam wanted to challenge it for the upcoming trip. I did? I don't think so.<<<<<<< It was discussed here during the campaign and almost everybody agreed with that assesment. Newsweek was less kind. "This week Secretary Powell will start a tour of the Middle East, in which one of his principal objectives is to re-energize US policy on Iraq." If that was the plan, its backfiring...very few are coming out in support of this latest US-UK move......Kuwait, the Saudis, and Israel so far. What would you expect in public? What they say in private on Colin's trip is more important. Do you really think Colin is so stupid, he didn't expect the Arabs to denounce the US in public. We've never lost it.<<< According to who. Again in Newsweek. The UN sanctions have become unworkable, riddled by smuggling and other illicit commerce. Some good U. S. allies have broken ranks." Let me just say that these other countries are getting much more mileage off this attack than we are IMO.<<<<< Here's an idea. Why not wait until after the trip until you start throwing stones. Maybe Colin knows more than you do. Did you ever think of that. The U.S needs a new policy towards Iraq. We are not going to get one running away from Iraq; we need to be in a position of power. Can't you understand that.